Reflective or formative measure

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Francisco
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Reflective or formative measure

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Hello, I would like to know if the relationship would be formative or reflective between the following indicators and their unobservable variable.
Indicators: Financial environment, Government policies, Government programs, Education, R & D transfer, Access to professional and commercial infrastructure, Internal market, Access to physical infrastructure and Social and cultural norms.
Variable not observable: Entrepreneur Environment.
Francisco
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Re: Reflective or formative measure

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Please, someone could help me?
jmbecker
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Re: Reflective or formative measure

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Sounds more like a formative construct, but you should look at the relevant literature and try to build an argument for this yourself.
In addition, you could also do a tetrad analysis to let the data very your assumptions.
Dr. Jan-Michael Becker, BI Norwegian Business School, SmartPLS Developer
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