today, many organizations plan to implement and exploit erp system due to its numerous benefits. despite these advantages, many adopting organizations have failed to achieve their intended goals through utilizing erp system. among other factors, organizational characteristics have been proposed as one of the effective factors which can influence erp success in both implementation and post-imple...

Description Extended Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Models may be specified with reticular action model (RAM) matrices or paths,linear structural relations (LISREL) matrices or paths, or directly in matrix algebra. To increase modularity, model expectations,fit functions, and optimizers can be easily interchanged. Fit functions include full information maximum likelihood (FIML),maximum li...

Purpose This paper aims to study aggressive bidding strategies in real estate auctions – a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. Design/methodology/approach The authors use two data sets strategies. First, the results from survey with 1,803 participants examining are used identify and related motivations. Second, apply SEM by using 1,078 exclusive auction journals sales Norway both dire...

BACKGROUND Various studies have shown that caregiving relatives of schizophrenic patients are at risk of suffering from depression. These studies differ with respect to the applied statistical methods, which could influence the findings. Therefore, the present study analyzes to which extent different methods may cause differing results. METHODS The present study contrasts by means of one data...

relationship between grain yield and its component traits can improve the efficiency of breeding programs by determining appropriate selection criteria. an investigation was carried out on barnyard millet (echinochloa spp.) global germplasm collection to investigate the association among yield components and their direct and indirect effects on the grain yield of barnyard millet. the experiment...

Two complementary schools have come to the fore in the field of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM): covariance-based SEM and component-based SEM. The first approach has been developed around Karl Jöreskog and the second one around Herman Wold under the name "PLS" (Partial Least Squares). Hwang and Takane have proposed a new component-based SEM method named Generalized Structured Component Anal...

This master thesis study explores technical students’ relation to perceived usefulness and ease of use of different functionality on a digital software platform for organising and structuring knowledge. The study investigates the relationship between perceived usefulness, ease of use and intention to continuously use the application while adding specific functionality and control aspects as mot...

The classical twin study is the most popular design in behavioural genetics. It has strong roots in biometrical genetic theory, which allows predictions to be made about the correlations between observed traits of identical and fraternal twins in terms of underlying genetic and environmental components. One can infer the relative importance of these 'latent' factors (model parameters) by struct...

Unobserved heterogeneity is a serious but often neglected problem in structural equation modelling (SEM) challenging the validity of many empirical results. Recently, a finite mixture approach to SEM has been proposed to resolve this problem but until now only a few studies analyse the performance of the relevant software. The contribution of this paper is twofold: First, results from a Monte C...