Abstract

A critical element in the evolution of a fundamental body of knowledge in marketing, as well as for improved marketing practice, is the development of better measures of the variables with which marketers work. In this article an approach is outlined by which this goal can be achieved and portions of the approach are illustrated in terms of a job satisfaction measure.

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MarketingMeasure (data warehouse)Element (criminal law)Work (physics)Marketing mixJob satisfactionBusinessComputer sciencePsychologySocial psychologyEngineeringData miningPolitical science

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Year
1979
Type
article
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
64-73
Citations
7828
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Gilbert A. Churchill (1979). A Paradigm for Developing Better Measures of Marketing Constructs. Journal of Marketing Research , 16 (1) , 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/002224377901600110

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10.1177/002224377901600110