Revisiting an "urban legend": an experimental assessment of common method variance's impact on relationships in self-reported data.
Despite the ubiquity of self-reported data in social science and public administration research, widespread concerns persist regarding common method variance (CMV) and its potential to distort observed correlations. In this article, we estimate CMV's biasing effects through five preregistered studie...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 343 - 361 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2026
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