Research Methodology and Empirical Basis

Abstract

Before moving on to the empirical part of this dissertation, this chapter outlines the process of data collection that was employed for constructing the data sample that serves as a basis for the two empirical investigations presented in chapters 4 and 5 (Sect. 3.1). Additionally, as both of the empirical investigations are most suitably analyzed by utilizing the statistical method of structural equation modeling (SEM), this approach and its justification in the present context are described in Sect. 3.2.