Estimation issues with PLS and CBSEM: Where the bias lies!

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3998-4010

  Sarstedt, Marko ^a,d   Hair, Joseph F ^b   Ringle, Christian M ^c,d   Thiele, Kai O ^c   Gudergan, Siegfried P ^d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of South Alabama   (United States)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Common factor models; Composite models; Formative measurement; Partial least squares; Reflective measurement; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989844061     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.06.007     Document Type: Article

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