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Problems with Implementation—Context Measurement and Analyses
- assigning the same group value to all members of a group
- aggregating individual outcomes to the group level
- Separate analyses of organizational and individual phenomena
Notes:
results in a violation of the independence of observations assumption underlying traditional regression approaches ignores potentially meaningful individual level variance in the outcome measure
ignores potentially meaningful individual level variance in the outcome measure
ignores the substantive connections between the two.
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