...Jan-Michael Becker; Jun-Hwa Cheah; Rasoul Gholamzade; Christian M. Ringle; Marko Sarstedt Purpose Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) has attracted much attention from both methodological and applied researchers in various disciplines – also in hospitality management...

... empirical papers were searched through tourism and hospitality journals and 54 studies were ultimately selected. The correlation coefficients were coded and examined through meta-analysis, after which they were used to test the hypothesized model via meta-analytic structural equation modeling. Findings...

...Jun-Hwa Cheah; Marko Sarstedt; Christian M. Ringle; T. Ramayah; Hiram Ting Purpose Researchers often use partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to estimate path models that include formatively specified constructs. Their validation requires running a redundancy analysis...

...Ahmet Usakli; Kemal Gurkan Kucukergin Purpose The purpose of this study is to review the use of partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in the field of hospitality and tourism and thereby to assess whether the PLS-SEM-based papers followed the recommended application...

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