A tool for addressing construct identity in literature reviews and meta-analyses

Larsen, Kai Rune T. and Bong, Chih How (2016) A tool for addressing construct identity in literature reviews and meta-analyses. MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 40 (3). pp. 529-551. ISSN 0276-7783

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Abstract

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

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Construct identity detector (CID); Construct identity fallacy (CIF); Construct validity; Design science; Inter-nomological network; Jingle and jangle fallacy; Latent semantic analysis (LSA); Natural language processing (NLP); Nomological networks; Ontologies; Synonymy and polysemy, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
Depositing User: Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 10 Nov 2016 02:49
Last Modified: 26 May 2022 03:14
URI: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14236

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