QuickPLS Relationships · PLS-SEM
Explain a customer-experience model
Follow the measures and relationships through to a results section.
Start here if: you can import a dataset and draw a basic path model.
Research tutorials
Research papers and worked exercises
Each lesson adapts a published study into a separate teaching exercise with data, setup instructions and calculated answers.
50 paper lessons plus foundational exercises.
Foundational exercises: PLS-SEM, fsQCA and NCA
These three exercises introduce different ways to answer a research question. Each includes practice data and explained results.
Combinations · fsQCA
Find two routes to successful delivery
Use ten cases to read a truth table and understand overlapping pathways.
Start here if: you know which conditions and outcome you want to study. The lesson explains set membership.
Requirements · NCA
Read a minimum requirement for innovation
Compare ceiling lines and translate a bottleneck table into the original measurement units.
Start here if: you can identify a possible requirement and a numeric outcome.
Recent papers · Digital work and learning
Digital architecture and organisational adaptability
Build a higher-order Architecture construct in QuickPLS from four reflective dimensions. Fit its relationship with Adaptability alongside Governance, then assess the dimension weights and the two structural paths.
PLS-SEM · Higher-order models
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on How IT Architecture Flexibility and Governance Decentralization Shape Digital Transformation CapabilitiesAndreas Olsen et al. · 2026Information Systems Frontiers · ABDC A
Recent papers · Online travel reviews
Travel reviews and empowerment: a mediation tutorial
Estimate the direct and empowerment-mediated relationships between argument clarity and decision satisfaction. Retain perceived usefulness in both equations and interpret each effect with its own interval.
PLS-SEM · Mediation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on From information to independence: understanding how online travel reviews shape traveller empowermentAnnette M. Mills et al. · 2026Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research · ABDC A
Recent papers · Green behaviour under uncertainty
Interpreting moderation in a green-behaviour model
Fit an interaction and examine how the relationship changes with the moderator. The example shows why a negative interaction can describe a weaker positive relationship.
PLS-SEM · Moderation · Mediation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Leading for Sustainability in Uncertain Times: How Paradoxical Leadership, Green Proactive Behaviour and Employee Ambidexterity Shape Sustainability PerformanceIslam Bourini et al. · 2026Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management · Q1
Recent papers · Digital work and learning
Comparing brand-response models across groups
Use QuickPLS to check whether the brand-response factors are measured comparably in groups A and B, then compare Anger → Complaint intention. Report the direct A-minus-B contrast with its own interval.
CFA · CB-SEM · Multigroup analysis
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on When Bad Feels Better: How Negative Online Brand Engagement Transforms Into Consumer HappinessXinyu Dong et al. · 2026Psychology & Marketing · ABDC A
Recent papers · AI communication and CSR authenticity
AI-written messages, authenticity and response
Code a message source as a binary variable and test a moderated mediation model. Examine how prior beliefs affect the authenticity relationship.
Regression · Mediation · Moderation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Can AI Write Authentic CSR? Effects of Message Source Across Informational and Narrative CSR CommunicationTerry Haekyung Kim et al. · 2026Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management · Q1
Recent papers · Sustainable supply chains
Supply-chain flexibility and collaboration: comparing fsQCA outcomes
Run separate analyses for flexibility and collaboration using the same conditions. Then change one calibration choice and examine its effect on the solutions.
fsQCA
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on From Nature to Supply Chain: Exploring Biomimicry-Based Pathways to Sustainability and Competitive AdvantageSusana Garrido et al. · 2026Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management · Q1
Recent papers · Digital work and learning
AI use and perceived skill loss: serial mediation
Build the serial-mediation PLS model in QuickPLS and bootstrap the Initiative → AI use → AI dependence → Perceived skill loss route. Read it alongside the shorter routes and the direct association.
PLS-SEM · Mediation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on The Complementarity Paradox: Human-AI Collaboration, Overreliance, and Skill Decline in Entrepreneurial ContextsSrinivas Subramanya et al. · 2026Information Systems Frontiers · ABDC A
Recent papers · Sustainability and financial performance
Sustainability, investment and profitability with fsQCA
Build a five-condition truth table and compare the routes to profitability. See how a highly consistent route can still explain only a small part of the outcome.
fsQCA
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Beyond Linear ESG Effects: Configurational Pathways to Superior Profitability Among Environmental Proactive FirmsDaniel Yeung et al. · 2026Business Strategy and the Environment · ABDC A
Recent papers · Digital work and learning
Three indirect routes to student engagement
Build the six-path student-engagement PLS model in QuickPLS and bootstrap its three Confidence-to-Engagement indirect routes. Read the two short routes and the serial route separately before their sum.
PLS-SEM · Mediation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Examining Chinese University Students' Engagement Through Academic Self-Efficacy, Teacher-Student Rapport, and Flourishing: A PLS-SEM and fsQCAZhenyu Zhao et al. · 2026European Journal of Education · Q1
Recent papers · Digital work and learning
Usefulness, anxiety and intention: two-stage moderation
Add a two-stage moderating effect in QuickPLS to test whether anxiety changes the relationship between usefulness and intention. Read the interaction interval and the usefulness slope at the displayed anxiety levels.
PLS-SEM · Moderation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Integrating metaverse technologies in medical education: examining acceptance factors among current and future healthcare providersSeckin Damar et al. · 2026Education and Information Technologies · Q1
Recent papers · Digital work and learning
AI-risk measures and adoption: checking the model
Build the workplace-assistant PLS model in QuickPLS and check its Risk, Difficulty, Usefulness and Continued use measures. Bootstrap the direct and usefulness-mediated relationships while keeping higher Difficulty defined as harder use.
PLS-SEM · Mediation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Effects of Hallucination Risk and Algorithm Aversion on Organizational Knowledge Seeking with Generative AIPhilipp Pecher et al. · 2026Information Systems Frontiers · ABDC A
Recent papers · Alliance capability and sustainable performance
Business-model innovation and flexibility: conditional effects
Use an observed-variable model to test moderation in the second stage of a mediation chain. Compare the indirect effect at different levels of flexibility.
Regression · Mediation · Moderation
Practice data · Calculated answers
Based on Leveraging Alliance Management Capability for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Business Model InnovationYi-Ying Chang et al. · 2026British Journal of Management · ABDC A*
About the collection
Recent studies and foundational method papers are labelled separately.
The cited papers are sources for the lessons, not claims that their authors used QuickPLS. Practice datasets were created for teaching; they are not the authors’ data.