li_2025_marketing_exploration

1,760 responses from 352 respondents to 5 items.

One of 8 tables from the same source; this one is the marketing_exploration table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionMarketing exploration capability scale (5 items 7-pt Likert) rated by managers/employees at Chinese time-honored (heritage) enterprises
ReferenceLi X, et al (2025) Breaking the deadlock: A study on the pathway and effects of reshaping the sustainable marketing capability of Chinese time-honored brands. PLoS ONE 20(6): e0326329
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0326329
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0326329

Size and shape

Responses1,760
Respondents352
Items5
Response categories6
Responses per respondent5
Responses per item352
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

sampleWorkplace
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)chi

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentMarketing Exploration (PLOR) scale
Mean words per item15.600
Mean characters per item111.600
Mean characters per response13.667
Flesch-Kincaid grade level14.471

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, li_2025_marketing_capability.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).made in the build script
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_firm_sizeCovariate Size
cov_firm_typeCovariate Type
cov_genderCovariate Gender
cov_industryCovariate Industry
cov_locationCovariate Located
cov_positionCovariate Position

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("li_2025_marketing_exploration")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("li_2025_marketing_exploration")

How to cite

@article{Li_2025, title={Breaking the deadlock: A study on the pathway and effects of reshaping the sustainable marketing capability of Chinese time-honored brands}, volume={20}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326329}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0326329}, number={6}, journal={PLOS One}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Li, Xiangyu and Inthurit, Danaikrit and Wu, MaoChun and Qiu, Linjun}, editor={Herrador, Manuel}, year={2025}, month=June, pages={e0326329} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv566
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_4 v13.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/w8zx-td92
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv13.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v43.0