Advanced Issues in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (ePub)

Christian M. Ringle is a Chaired Professor of Management at the Hamburg University of Technology (Germany) and Conjoint Professor at the Faculty of Business Law at the University of Newcastle (Australia). He holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Kansas and received his doctor of philosophy from the University of Hamburg (Germany). His widely published research addresses the management of organizations, strategic and human resource management, marketing, and quantitative methods for business and market research. He is cofounder of SmartPLS (http://www.smartpls.com), a software tool with a graphical user interface for the application of the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method. Besides supporting consultancies and international corporations, he regularly teaches doctoral seminars on multivariate statistics, the PLS-SEM method, and the use of SmartPLS worldwide. More information about Christian M. Ringle and his full list of publications can be found at http://www.tuhh.de/hrmo/team/prof-dr-c-m-ringle.html.

Siegfried P. Gudergan is a Chaired Professor of Strategy at Newcastle Business School within the University of Newcastle (Australia).  He previously was Head of School and Professor of Marketing at UTS Business School within the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). He holds a PhD from the Australian Graduate School of Management that was awarded by both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. His research focuses on managerial decision-making and is applied to strategic management issues. Some of his work that concerns PLS-SEM has appeared in journals such the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Long Range Planning and Journal of Business Research. He has been the primary advisor for doctoral students who have been awarded, for example, an Honorable Mention as finalist for the Dissertation Award of the Academy of Management’s Business Policy & Strategy Division and the Best PhD Paper Award by the Strategic Management Society.