Business Administration Dept, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Path analysis is to identify the subject, determine the factors, hypothetical initial alignment, and test its meaningful relationships in accordance with the influential paths of the relationships. This technique based on regression analysis, which has a structural aspect with several dependent and independent variables. The researcher investigates the interaction of multiple variables with direct and indirect effects simultaneously by statistical mechanisms in path analysis. Therefore, multivariate models with K independent variable and n dependent variable are used. Path analysis consider as a theory-testing tool. Its first two inputs can be data and models to derive model-fitting outputs and estimate its parameters.