BUSI 600 WEEK 2 DISCUSSION. Discussion 1 A GEM Of A Study.pdf | BUSI 600 - Business Research Methods
- What are some of the intervening, extraneous, and moderating variables that the study
attempted to control with its 10-nation design?
A GEM OF A STUDY 3
“Intervening variable is a factor that theoretically affects the DV but cannot be observed or has not been measured; its effect must be inferred from the effects of the independent and moderating variables on the observed phenomenon” (Schindler, Pg 15). There are a few of the intervening variables that affect the dependent variable in this study and can be seen in the data. Not all the countries listed currently treat businesses the same. Different countries and governments incentivize business entrepreneurship in different ways in different sectors. For example, the United States incentivizes different sectors in different ways and sometimes incentivizes different groups in ways that other countries would not. Currently, the United States incentivizes the green energy startups with subsidies in ways that countries in this list would not. The tax rates in these countries also could be intervening variables that would factor into this data and affect the DV, but the extent of which it affects can not be concretely measured. “Moderating variable is a second independent variable believed to have a significant contributory effect on the original Independent to dependent variable relationship” (Schindler, Pg