Lateral collinearity and misleading results in variance-based SEM: An illustration and recommendations

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 546-580

  Kock, Ned ^a   Lynn, Gary S ^b  

^a Texas A and M International University   (United Kingdom)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collinearity; Electronic communication; Lateral collinearity; Multiple regression; Partial least squares; Structural equation modeling; Vertical collinearity

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COLLINEARITY; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864514397     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00302     Document Type: Article

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