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Willem E. Saris

Willem E. Saris

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
43
Citations
10617
World Ranking
4324
National Ranking
33

Overview

Willem E. Saris is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Their research spans multiple fields within business and social sciences, with a focus on areas such as business management, statistics, and political science.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Social Sciences

The subfields in which they have contributed are:

  • Strategy and Management
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Accounting

Their research topics cover a diverse range of subjects, including:

  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
  • Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Willem E. Saris has published several papers in notable academic journals. Recent publications include:

  • The adoption of governance mechanisms in family businesses: an institutional lens, 2020, Journal of Family Business Management
  • Absorptive capacity dimensions and the measurement of cumulativeness, 2021, Journal of Business Research
  • Correcting Correlation and Covariance Matrices for Measurement Errors Before Further Analysis, 2021, Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation, 2021, Informal Logic
  • Same same...but different?, 2023, Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including:

  • Paolo Moncagatta
  • María José Parada
  • Alberto Gimeno
  • Georges Samara
  • Desirée Knoppen

Their work is published across a variety of venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Family Business Management
  • Journal of Business Research
  • Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Informal Logic
  • Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública

Best Publications

  • Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research

    Willem E. Saris;Irmtraud N. Gallhofer

  • Testing Structural Equation Models or Detection of Misspecifications

    Willem E. Saris;Albert Satorra;William M. van der Veld

  • Choosing the Number of Categories in Agree–Disagree Scales

    Melanie A. Revilla;Willem E. Saris;Jon A. Krosnick

  • Power of the likelihood ratio test in covariance structure analysis

    Albert Satorra;Willem E. Saris

  • Structural equation modelling

    W.E. Saris;G. Mellenbergg;H.J. Ader

  • Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research: Saris/Design

    Willem E. Saris;Irmtraud N. Gallhofer

  • The Detection and Correction of Specification Errors in Structural Equation Models

    Willem E. Saris;Albert Satorra;Dag Sorbom

  • Comparing questions with agree/ disagree response options to questions with item-specific response options

    Willem E. Saris;Melanie Revilla;Jon A. Krosnick;Eric M. Shaeffer

  • Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research: Saris/Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research

    Willem E. Saris;Irmtraud N. Gallhofer

  • Stability of Life-Satisfaction Over Time: analysis of change in ranks in a national population

    Joop Ehrhardt;W.E. Saris;Ruut Veenhoven

  • The validity and reliability of survey questions : a meta-analysis of MTMM studies

    Annette C. Scherpenzeel;Willem E. Saris

  • Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a Structural Modeling Approach

    Willem E. Saris;Frank M. Andrews

  • Computer-Assisted Interviewing

    Willem E. Saris

  • Studies in public opinion : attitudes, nonattitudes, measurement error, and change

    Willem E. Saris;Paul M. Sniderman

  • Mixed mode designs: finding the balance between nonresponse bias and mode effects

    Robert J.J. Voogt;Willem E. Saris

  • The internationalization of small firms: The relationship between the global mindset and firms’ internationalization behavior

    Oyvin Kyvik;Willem Saris;Eduard Bonet;J. Augusto Felício

  • Alternative approaches to structural modeling of ordinal data: A Monte Carlo study

    Germà Coenders;Albert Satorra;Willem E. Saris

  • Do we have to combine Values in the Schwartz' Human Values Scale? A Comment on the Davidov Studies

    Desireé Knoppen;Willem E. Saris

  • Measurement of Social Participation and Its Place in Social Capital Theory.

    Laura Guillen;Lluis Coromina;Willem E. Saris

  • A comparative Study of Satisfaction with Life in Europe

    W.E. Saris;R. Veenhoven;A.C. Scherpenzeel;B. Bunting

  • A New Approach to Evaluating the Quality of Measurement Instruments: The Split-Ballot MTMM Design

    Willem E. Saris;Albert Satorra;Germà Coenders

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruut Veenhoven
Ruut Veenhoven Erasmus University Rotterdam
Richard E. Boyatzis
Richard E. Boyatzis Case Western Reserve University
Peter Neijens
Peter Neijens University of Amsterdam
Jon A. Krosnick
Jon A. Krosnick Stanford University
Frank M. Andrews
Frank M. Andrews University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Brendan Bunting
Brendan Bunting University of Ulster
Jaap Dronkers
Jaap Dronkers Maastricht University

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