A Tool for Addressing Construct Identity in Literature Reviews and Meta-Analyses
| Autor: | Kai R. Larsen, Chih How Bong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Fallacy
Information Systems and Management Computer science business.industry 05 social sciences Behavioural sciences Construct validity Nomological network 02 engineering and technology Design science computer.software_genre Computer Science Applications Management Information Systems 020204 information systems 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Information system Identity (object-oriented programming) Artificial intelligence Construct (philosophy) business computer 050203 business & management Natural language processing Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | MIS Quarterly. 40:529-551 |
| ISSN: | 2162-9730 0276-7783 |
| DOI: | 10.25300/misq/2016/40.3.01 |
| Popis: | The problem of detecting whether two behavioral constructs reference the same real-world phenomenon has existed for over 100 years. Discordant naming of constructs is here termed the construct identity fallacy (CIF). We designed and evaluated the construct identity detector (CID), the first tool with large-scale construct identity detection properties and the first tool that does not require respondent data. Through the adaptation and combination of different natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, six designs were created and evaluated against human expert decisions. All six designs were found capable of detecting construct identity, and a design combining two existing algorithms significantly outperformed the other approaches. A set of follow-up studies suggests the tool is valuable as a supplement to expert efforts in literature review and metaanalysis. Beyond design science contributions, this article has important implications related to the taxonomic structure of social and behavioral science constructs, for the jingle and jangle fallacy, the core of the Information Systems nomological network, and the inaccessibility of social and behavioral science knowledge. In sum, CID represents an important, albeit tentative, step toward discipline-wide identification of construct identities |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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