• Title of article

    The central role of the unit of analysis concept in research design

  • Author/Authors

    Dolma, Serkan Istanbul University - School of Business Administration - Department of Organizational Behavior, Turkey

  • From page
    169
  • To page
    174
  • Abstract
    In this paper the importance of the unit of analysis in research design is emphasized. The relations between the unit of analysis and other related concepts are described, and possible analysis alternatives in case of violation of independence assumption are briefly discussed.
  • Keywords
    Unit of analysis , observational unit , the assumption of independence of observations , hierarchical linear modeling
  • Journal title
    Istanbul Business Research (IBR)
  • Journal title
    Istanbul Business Research (IBR)
  • Record number

    2700477