Silver Bullet or Voodoo Statistics?

By John J. Sosik, Surinder Singh Kahai, M. Piovoso. 2009

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When do interprofessional teams succeed? Investigating the moderating roles of team and professional identity in interprofessional effectiveness (2011, methodology): “Partial least squares is being increasingly used in health and organizational studies research (Sosik et al., 2009) as it generates information that can be used to assess both measurement and structural components of research models.”
The Effect of Strategic Human Resource Management on Organizational Performance: The Mediating Role of High‐Performance Human Resource Practices (2013, methodology): “In particular, PLS SEM can be used to analyze data from small samples, which is a factor pertinent to the current study (Sosik et al., 2009).”
PLS-SEM: Indeed a Silver Bullet (2011, background): “This important feature holds especially for research situations in which maximum likelihood–based CB-SEM typically exhibits inflated standard errors (Sosik, Kahai, and Piovoso 2009) and the method’s premises are violated (e.g., small sample size, nonnormal data, high model complexity).”
A Critical Examination of Common Beliefs About Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (2013, background): “…such as strategic management (Hulland, 1999), operations management (Peng & Lai, 2012), marketing (Hair, Ringle, & Sarstedt, 2011), group research (Sosik et al., 2009), and information systems (Gefen, Rigdon, & Straub, 2011) to develop their own guidelines on how to perform and evaluate PLS-based…”
A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship Between Team Leadership and Performance (2010, methodology): “For a nontechnical primer on PLS, we recommend the work of Sosik, Kahai, and Piovoso (2009).”
An assessment of the use of partial least squares structural equation modeling in marketing research (2011, methodology): “However, as noted by Marcoulides and Saunders (2006), as well as Sosik et al. (2009) , PLS-SEM is not a silver bullet for use with samples of any size, or a panacea for dealing with empirical research challenges.”
Commitment-based HR practices, different types of innovation activities and firm innovation performance (2013, background): “2009 ; Reinartz, Haenlein and Henseler 2009 ; Sosik, Kahai and Piovoso 2009 ); (3) the present study's sample size set is relatively small ( N = 103).”