Table V.

Assessment of discriminate validity

DimensionsAVEaEnvironmental materialEconomic issueEnvironmental practicesSocial concern
Environmental material0.5011   
Economic issue0.5000.577** (0.332)b1  
Environmental practices0.5200.691** (0.477)0.548** (0.300)1 
Social concern0.5030.657** (0.431)0.691** (0.477)0.607** (0.368)1

Notes:

a

AVE = sum of squared standardized loadings/[(sum of squared standardized loadings) + (sum of indicator measurement error)];

b

squared correlation;

**

correlation is significant at the 0.01 level

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