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Control Variables: Problematic Issues and Best Practices

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management

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  • Leon Schjoedt
  • Krittaya Sangboon

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Schjoedt and Sangboon hold a positivist ideology. In this chapter they discuss an important aspect of the unit of analysis strategy in research designs: How does one account for or control factors that the researcher is aware of in the model but are beyond the focus of a within-groups or between-groups comparison? In other words, control factors are confounding, moderating, or mediating variables. The reason it is important to identify and control (or account for) these factors is so that the researcher can generalize to other populations, that is, by identifying the confounding factors that are present but are beyond the unit of analysis interest. When participants are samples for a between-group unit of analysis comparison, individual attributes in each participant often differ. Designing control variables is one approach among others to address this.

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  • Leon Schjoedt & Krittaya Sangboon, 2015. "Control Variables: Problematic Issues and Best Practices," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kenneth D. Strang (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management, chapter 15, pages 239-261, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-48495-6_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137484956_15
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