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Subsidiary embeddedness and competence development in MNCs a multi-level analysis

U Andersson, M Forsgren, U Holm - Organization Studies, 2001

Hello Yimin Mao

These might be of interest:

Hox, J. (2010). Multilevel analysis: Techniques and applications. Routledge.

http://tandfbis.s3.amazonaws.com/rt-media/pp/common/sample-chapters/9781848728462.pdf

Diez-Roux, A. V. (2000). Multilevel analysis in public health research. Annual Review of Public Health, 21(1), 171-192.

http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~ejohnson/DiezRouz2000.pdf

Diez-Roux, A. V. (2002). A glossary for multilevel analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 56(8), 588-594.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1732212/pdf/v056p00588.pdf

I don't know if these would be of any help:

Subramanian, S. V., Kim, D. J., & Kawachi, I. (2002). Social trust and self-rated health in US communities: a multilevel analysis. Journal of Urban Health, 79(1), S21-S34.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3456618/pdf/11524_2006_Article_98.pdf

Merlo, J., Chaix, B., Yang, M., Lynch, J., & Råstam, L. (2005). A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59(6), 443-449.

http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/6/443.full

Tom A. B. Snijders (2012) Multilevel analysis, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/MLB_new_S.pdf

Very best wishes

Mary

These are few articles, with syntax examples

• Hayes, A (2006) A primer on multilevel modeling

ftp://131.252.97.79/Transfer/ES_Pubs/ESVal/multilevel_analysis/hayes_06_multilevel_primer_socialsci.pdf

Hayes, show some examples with code

If you get a hold on Hox's book:

• Hox, J. J. (2010). Multilevel Analysis: Techniques and Applications. New York and Hove: Routledge.

Do check the UCLA chapter companions for HLM, MLwiN, SAS, Stata and R for this book title

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/examples/mlm_ma_hox/

If you want to use MSEM, Heck & Thomas, is also a good book to start, yet will need to have MPLUS with you:

• Heck, R. H., & Thomas, S. L. (2015). An introduction to multilevel modeling techniques: MLM and SEM approaches Using MPLUS. New York and Hove: Routledge.

This is a sample

http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781317598503_sample_1015614.pdf

the authors also have a web with data and examples:

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781848725522/

And if, you would like to learn MLM models with R, this is a reference with this in mind:

• Finch, W. H., Bolin, J. E., & Kelley, K. (2014). Multilevel Modeling Using R. London: CRC Press. Retrieved from http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466515857

Finally, if STATA is in your horizon, Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal book, is definitely worthwhile, pretty every table is exemplify with STATA commands.

• Rabe-Hesketh, S., & Skrondal, A. (2012). Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, Volumes I and II, Third Edition. Taylor & Francis.

I'm assuming you may have to deal with real dataset in the near future, which may suffer from sparsity. Do check the work from McNeish (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_Mcneish)

• McNeish, D. M., & Harring, J. R. (2015). Clustered data with small sample sizes: Comparing the performance of model-based and design-based approaches. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. doi:10.100/03610917.2014.983648
• Mcneish, D. M., & Stapleton, L. M. (2014). The Effect of Small Sample Size on Two-Level Model Estimates : A Review and Illustration. Educational Psychology Review. doi:10.1007/s10648-014-9287-x
• McNeish, D. M. (2014). Modeling Sparsely Clustered Data: Design-Based, Model-Based, and Single-Level Methods. Psychological Methods. doi:10.1037/met0000024

I hope these are useful!

Diego.

There are very large scale resource here

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/software/mlwin/mlwin-resources.html#multipleresp

for specific types of model - you can search the Multilevel gallery

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/gallery

which is a database of (mostly) published journal articles which fit multilevel models. It is searchable by model type and substantive area.

I published a paper that you may find useful. It concerns the application of person-level longitudinal data analysis outside the context of growth studies.

thank you all. your suggestions are  very useful to me.