Partial Least Squares Path Modeling Basic Concepts, Methodological Issues and Applications

Hengky Latan
graduated in 2016 in Accounting (
summa cum laude
) at the Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia. He worked at the STIE Bank BPD Jateng in the Department of Accounting, and at the Petra Christian University. He authored several books including multivariate statistics with IBM SPSS, Stata and PLS-SEM with SmartPLS, WarpPLS, and XLSTAT-PLSPM and GSCA. His articles were published in a number of journals including
Industrial Marketing Management
,
International Journal of Production Research
,
Journal of Business Ethics
,
Journal of Cleaner Production
,
the Technovation
,
Transportation Research Part E
,
Sustainability Accounting
,
Management and Policy Journal,
Total Quality Management and Business Excellence
. He also attended conferences such as the Academy of Management (AoM), the British Academy of Management (BAM), and EurOMA.

Richard Noonan
studied Economics of Education at Columbia University, NY (Ed. D.) and Stockholm University, Sweden (Ph. D.). He served as research officer with the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and later as Associate Professor at the Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Sweden. As an education economist, he served as consultant to UNESCO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the International Labour Organization, and many other multilateral and bilateral international development agencies. Noonan published numerous articles and several books on education systems, with an emphasis on quantitative analysis, including the use of PLS in the analysis of education and training systems. He retired in 2012 and devotes his time to writing.