Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

This book chapter is based on a previous version published as an article in the Information Systems Journal, and contains revised text, originally written by the author, from articles published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, the International Journal of e-Collaboration, and the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods. This is done with full permission by the copyright holders, and with the goal of timely and wide dissemination of scholarly work. The author is the developer of the software WarpPLS, which has over 7,000 users in more than 33 different countries at the time of this writing, and moderator of the PLS-SEM email distribution list. He is grateful to those users, and to the members of the PLS-SEM email distribution list, for questions, comments, and discussions on topics related to SEM and to the use of WarpPLS.