This edited volume brings together some of the best papers from the 2022 Conference on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), held at the Babe-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. The volume seeks to expand the current research on PLS-SEM and promote the method's application in the scientific community. It gathers research from scholars in many different fields who work on the advancement of PLS-SEM and who apply the method to explain and predict behavioral phenomena.

Researchers today can draw on a wide array of different PLS-SEM-based algorithms, complementary methods, and model evaluation metrics. Tying in with these developments, the first part of this book documents methodological advances of PLS-SEM, which extend the researchers' current toolbox of methods. The following parts demonstrate state-of-the-art applications of PLS-SEM in various fields such as consumer behavior, hospitality, human resource management, entrepreneurship, and organizational behavior. Special emphasis is placed on studies that apply complementary methods to offer a more nuanced analysis of the research questions.

Covers the latest methodological advances of PLS-SEM Includes state-of-the-art applications of PLS-SEM Documents PLS-SEM use in a diverse range of fields

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Lacramioara Radomir is a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babe -Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her research interests relate to service marketing, relationship quality, corporate reputation, employer attractiveness, and methodological issues in PLS-SEM. She holds a PhD in Marketing from Babe -Bolyai University and is the recipient of a postdoctoral scholarship cofounded by European Union.

Raluca Ciornea is a Lecturer in Marketing Department at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania and Founding Editor of the journal 'Marketing - from Information to Decision'. Her main research interests include marketing of luxury products and services, consumer behavior in marketing online context, and marketing in higher education.

Huiwen Wang is a Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Beihang University. She is the Dean of the Zhizhen College, Director of the Research Center of Complex Data Analysis of Beihang University, China, and the Director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Emergency Support Simulation Technologies for City Operations. She is the recipient of special government allowance from the State Council of China. Prof. Wang has been mainly engaged in the theoretical and applied research on statistical analysis of complex data and made significant achievements in data analysis. She has led 20 programs of the National Nature Foundation of China including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and many government and business applied research projects. She also holds positions at the International Statistical Institute, the National Editorial and Reviewing Committee of Statistics Teaching Materials and other.

Yide Liu is an Associate Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. He focuses on innovation management research. His research was published in academic journals including Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Internet Research, etc. Clarivate Analytics has listed one of his research papers as highly cited and as a 'hot paper'. Yide Liu co-chaired a series of international conferences on innovation, information systems and quantitative methods.

Christian M. Ringle, is a chaired professor in the Department of Management Sciences and Technology at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany. His research interest and publications address quantitative methods for business and market research, business analytics, and machine learning. Since 2018, Christian has been included in the Clarivate Analytics' Highly Researchers List. He is a codeveloper of and cofounder of the statistical software SmartPLS.

Marko Sarstedt is a chaired professor of marketing at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany, and an adjunct research professor at Babe -Bolyai-University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His main research interest is the advancement of research methods to further the understanding of consumer behavior. Marko has been repeatedly named member of Clarivate Analytics' Highly Cited Researchers List. In March 2022, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Babe -Bolyai-University Cluj-Napoca for his research achievements and contributions to international exchange.

Inhalt
Part I Methodology.- Chapter 1 Empirical Validation of the 10-Times Rule for SEM.- Chapter 2 Missing Values in RGCCA: Algorithms and Comparisons.- Chapter 3 Comparing Local vs Global Clustering with FIMIX-PLS. Application to Marketing.- Chapter 4 Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling-based Discrete Choice Modeling: An Illustration in Modeling Hospital Choice with Latent Class Segmentation.- Chapter 5 The Use of PLS-SEM in Engineering: A Tool to Apply the Design Science.- Chapter 6 Discovering Issues in Cross-cultural Adaptation of Questionnaire through PLS-SEM Analysis.- Chapter 7 Use of PLS-SEM Approach in the Construction Management Research.- Part II Consumer Behavior & Marketing.- Chapter 8 Understanding the Role of Consumer Psychological Motives in Smart Connected Objects Appropriation: A Higher Order PLS-SEM Approach.- Chapter 9 Advertisements that Follow Users Online and their Effect on Consumers' Satisfaction and Expectation Confirmation. Evidence from the TourismIndustry.- Chapter 10 Similarities in Factors Affecting Online Shopping Intention in Ecuador and Peru: A Multigroup Analysis.- Chapter 11 The Impact of Subjective Norms, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Purchase Intention on Purchase Behavior of Eco-Friendly Food Packaging Products.- Chapter 12 Sustainability of Food Waste in the Agro-industry of Michoacan, Mexico.- Chapter 13 Predicting Sustainable Consumption Behavior of Europeans Using the CVPAT Approach.- Part III Hospitality & Tourism.- Chapter 14 The Relationship among Perceived Value, Tourist Satisfaction and Citizenship Behaviors: The Difference between Overnight Tourists and Non-overnight Tourists.- Chapter 15 Non-linear Relationship between Intellectual Capital and Hotel Performance: Quadratic Effect in PLS-SEM.- Chapter 16 The U-Shape Influence of Family Involvement in Hotel Chain: Examining Dynamic Capabilities in PLS-SEM.- Part IV Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 17 Two-way Business Innovation in CentralEastern Europe: Analysing Innovative Enterprises Using the PLS-SEM Method.- Chapter 18 Institutional Context and Entrepreneurship Typologies: The Moderator Role of Environmental Uncertainty.- Chapter 19 PLS-based Evaluation of a Digital Transformation Adoption Model for Biopharma Manufacturing.- Chapter 20 Entrepreneurial Culture, Management and Innovation of Dairy Industries in Greece, in a Bureaucracy Environment.- Chapter 21 The Influence of Facebook on Value Cocreation: Evidence from the Moroccan Fast-Food Industry.- Part V Human Resource Management & Organizational Design and Behavior.- Chapter 22 Research on Interaction Pattern of Virtual Team in Crisis Situation.- Chapter 23 Predicting the Performance of New Hires: The Role of Humility, Interpersonal Understanding, Self- Confidence, and Flexibility.- Chapter 24 Mindful Leadership Under Fire: A Validation Study of a Hierarchical Component Model.- Chapter 25 When Navigating Uncertainty Lead Mindfully.- Chapter 26 The Interplay between Push Factors and Transformational Leadership in Influencing Inter- Organizational Labour Mobility in Public Sector.- Chapter 27 Integrated Leadership: Assessing an Integrated Principal Leadership Practices Construct.- Chapter 28 Exploring the Interrelationship among Ma…