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4.4. ANALYSES 103<br />
Table 4.8: Items for <strong>Business</strong> Unit Size & Firm Size (Q31-32)<br />
Item description<br />
Component<br />
loadings<br />
a. <strong>Business</strong> unit FTE (Ln) 0.866<br />
b. <strong>Business</strong> unit revenue (Ln) 0.866<br />
Percentage variance explained 75.0%<br />
Cronbach’s alpha 0.634<br />
c. Firm FTE (Ln) 0.952<br />
d. Firm revenue (Ln) 0.952<br />
Percentage variance explained 90.6%<br />
Cronbach’s alpha 0.892<br />
Table 4.9: Descriptive Statistics<br />
Mean Min Max<br />
Std.<br />
Dev.<br />
SkewnessKurtosis<br />
RFMO 2.64 1.00 7.00 1.21 0.73 -0.09<br />
RPE-Use 3.37 1.00 5.00 1.00 -0.85 0.31<br />
Information asymmetry 5.29 2.00 7.00 0.91 -0.61 0.57<br />
Goal ambiguity 2.34 1.00 5.00 0.57 0.43 1.19<br />
Measurability 4.48 2.00 6.00 0.69 -0.45 0.38<br />
Decentralization 4.31 1.00 7.00 1.13 -0.12 -0.02<br />
<strong>Business</strong> unit size 10.27 2.30 14.97 2.26 -1.56 2.70<br />
Firm size 13.41 3.69 19.41 2.43 -0.44 1.34<br />
as presented in table 4.10. The table shows an insignificant Levene’s test for homogeneity<br />
of variances, which tests whether the variance in RFMO scores is the same for each of the<br />
four sectors. An insignificant Levene’s test indicates that the assumption of homogeneity<br />
of variance is not violated.<br />
4.4 Analyses<br />
This section describes the analyses. Here I discuss the bivariate correlations and the multivariate<br />
analyses. I also analyse the opportunism-mitigating effect of RPE by performing<br />
OLS regression analyses. In addition to the opportunism-mitigating effect of RPE, I include<br />
a set of factors driving opportunism (i.e., information asymmetry, goal ambiguity,<br />
measurability of outputs, and decentralization of decision rights), dummies to control for<br />
the sector in which the business unit operates, and size control variables. This results in<br />
the statistical model shown in figure 4.3.