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Title: A Primer on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1544396406
ISBN 13: 9781544396408
Binding: paperback
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: Very Good

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Joseph F. Hair, Jr. is Cleverdon Chair of Business, and director of the PhD degree in business administration, Mitchell College of Business, University of South Alabama. He previously held the Copeland Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and was Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute, Ourso College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University. Joe was recognized by Clarivate Analytics from 2018 through 2024 for being in the top 1% globally of all business and economics professors based on his citations and scholarly accomplishments, which exceed 550,000 over his career. He has authored more than 145 editions of his books, including Multivariate Data Analysis (8^th edition, 2019; cited 240,000+ times), PLS-SEM Primer (4^th edition; 2026); Advanced PLS (2^nd edition, 2024); MKTG (14^th edition, 2024); Essentials of Business Research Methods (5^th edition, 2024); Essentials of Marketing Analytics (2^nd edition, 2025); and Essentials of Marketing Research (6^th edition, 2026). He also has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and was recognized as the Academy of Marketing Science Marketing Educator of the Year. As a popular guest speaker, Professor Hair often presents seminars on research techniques, multivariate data analysis, and marketing issues for organizations in Europe, Australia, China, India, and South America. He has a forthcoming book on Sales Analytics (Sage 2026).

G. Tomas M. Hult, PhD, has been Professor in the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (USA) since 2001 and a visiting professor at the F�retagsekonomiska Institutionen at Uppsala University (Sweden) since 2013. Professor Hult is a member of the Expert Networks of the World Economic Forum and United Nations/UNCTAD’s World Investment Forum and is also part of the Expert team at the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Dr. Hult was recognized in 2016 as the Academy of Marketing Science/CUTCO-Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator; he is an elected fellow of the Academy of International Business, and is one of the world’s most cited marketing academics. At Michigan State University, Dr. Hult was recognized with the Beal Outstanding Faculty Award in 2019 (MSU’s highest award “for outstanding total service to the University”). He has also been recognized with the John Dunning AIB Service Award for outstanding service to AIB as the longest-serving executive director in AIB’s history (2004-2019) (the most prestigious service award given by the Academy of International Business). Professor Hult regularly teaches doctoral seminars on multivariate statistics, structural equation modeling, and hierarchical linear modeling. He is a dual citizen of Sweden and the United States. More information about Professor Hult can be found at https://broad.msu.edu/profile/hult/.

Christian M. Ringle is a Chaired Professor and the Director of the Institute of Management and Decision Sciences at the Hamburg University of Technology (Germany), an Adjunct Professor at the James Cook University (Australia), a Visiting Guest Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), and an RHB-UKM Endowment Fund Distinguished Chairholder at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). His research focuses on management, marketing, technology and innovation management, method development, business analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the application of business research methods to decision making. His contributions have been published in journals such as Decision Sciences, European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Information Systems Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Long Range Planning, MIS Quarterly, and Organizational Research Methods. Since 2018, Christian has been included in the Clarivate Analytics′ list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR). He is a co-developer and co-founder of the statistical software SmartPLS (https://www-smartpls.com). More info: https://www.tuhh.de/mds/team/prof-dr-c-m-ringle.

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 and psychological measurement to further the understanding of consumer behavior. His research has been published in Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Organizational Research Methods, MIS Quarterly, and Psychometrika, among others. His research ranks Marko among the most frequently cited in the social sciences with more than 300,000 citations according to Google Scholar. Marko has won numerous best paper and citation awards and 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.

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