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The Critical Importance Of Construct Measurement Specification: A Response To Aguirre-Urreta And Marakas, Stacie Petter, Arun Rai, Detmar W. Straub

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Aguirre-Urreta and Marakas (A&M) suggest in their simulation “Revisiting Bias Due to Construct Misspecification: Different Results from Considering Coefficients in Standardized Form,” that, like Jarvis et al. (2003), MacKenzie et al. (2005), and Petter et al. (2007) before them, bias does occur when formative constructs are misspecified as reflective. But A&M argue that the level of bias in prior simulation studies has been exaggerated. They parameterize their simulation models using standardized coefficients in contrast to Jarvis et al., MacKenzie et al., and Petter et al., who parameterize their simulation models using unstandardized coefficients. Thus, across these four simulation studies, biases …