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Contents Page
5.2.3 Overall Measurement Model Fit ……………………………. 124
5.2.4 Bivariate Correlations between Latent Variables …………… 126
5.2.5 Validity of the Constructs ………………………………….... 127
5.2.6 Overall Results of Measurement Development …………….. 128
5.3 Model Testing ……………………………………………………….. 130
5.3.1 Testing the Proposed Model and Fit Indices ………………... 130
5.3.2 Testing the Competing Model and Fit Indices ……………… 133
5.3.3 Model Comparison and Summary of the Model Fit ………… 136
Chapter 6 Hypotheses Testing and Discussions …………….. 141
6. Overview ………………………………………………………………… 141
6.1 Predictors and Mediators of Commitment…………………………… 142
6.2 Hypotheses Testing …………………………………………………. 143
6.2.1 Cultural Similarity and Importer Commitment …………… 145
6.2.2 Environmental Volatility and Supplier’s Opportunism …… 146
6.2.3 Supplier’s Opportunism and Importer Commitment ……… 147
6.2.4 Supplier’s Opportunism and Importer Trust ……………… 148
6.2.5 Environmental Volatility and Importer Commitment ……. 149
6.2.6 Md._Abu_Saleh_Thesis
Supplier’s 2006
Competencies and Importer Commitment …….. 150
6.2.7 Transaction-Specific Investment (TSI) and Importer
Commitment ……………………………………………… 151
6.2.8 Knowledge and Experience and Importer Commitment …. 153
6.2.9 Communication and Importer Trust ……………………… 154
6.2.10 Communication and Importer Commitment ……………… 155
6.2.11 Trust and Importer Commitment …………………………. 156
6.3 Additional Paths in the Modified Proposed Model ………………….. 157
6.3.1 Communication and Supplier’s Opportunism …………….. 157
6.3.2 Cultural Similarity and Supplier’s Opportunism ………….. 158
6.3.3 Supplier’s Competencies and Supplier’s Opportunism …… 158
6.4 Summary …………………………………………………………….. 159

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