Beyond the horizon of measurement: Festschrift in honor of Ingwer Borg

Abstract

"Modesty and academic excellence paired with trustfulness and truthfulness, these are the descriptions we would choose, if asked to describe Ingwer Borg in a nutshell. A glance at his oevre reveals a multi-talented, innovative, and cross-disciplinary scientist, who, by all means, could fill his walls with eminent names, topics, positions, and publications. This is in contrast to the frugality of his office, a scientific workbench, not a celebrity's showroom. In addition to his academic pursues he likes to venture into real life, too. This volume is organized in two parts. The first part deals with measurement issues including the application of multidimensional scaling to substantive issues but where the method is center-stage. The second part in substantive in focus and deals with questions of the organization of firms and employee attitudes." (author's abstract). Contents: Peter Ph. Mohler: Sampling from a universe of items and the De-Machiavellization of questionnaire design (9-14); Hubert Feger: Some analytical foundations of multidimensional scaling for ordinal data (15-40); Patrick J.F. Groenen, Ivo A. van der Lans: Multidimensional scaling with regional restrictions for facet theory: an application to Levy's political protest data (41-64); Arie Cohen: A comparison between factor analysis and smallest space analysis of the comprehensive scoring system of the Rorschach (65-72); Wolfgang Bilsky: On the structure of motives: beyond the 'big three' (73-84); Shlomit Levy, Dov Elizur: Values of veteran Israelis and new immigrants from the former Soviet Union: a facet analysis (85-104); Simon L. Dolan, Christian Acosta-Flamma: Values and propensity to adopt new HRM web-based technologies as determinants of HR efficiency and effectiveness: a firm level resource-based analysis (105-124); Sanjay T. Menon: Non-hierarchical emergent structure: a case study in alternative management (125-138); Christiane Spitzmüller, Dana M. Glenn: Organizational survey response: previous findings and an integrative framework (139-162); Thomas Staufenbiel, Maren Kroll, Cornelius J. König: Could job insecurity (also) be a motivator? (163-174); Michael Braun, Miriam Baumgärtner: The effects of work values and job characteristics on job satisfaction (175-188).