Title
A clarification of confirmatory composite analysis (CCA)
Abstract
Confirmatory composite analysis (CCA) is a structural equation modeling (SEM) technique that specifies and assesses composite models. In a composite model, the construct emerges as a linear combination of observed variables. CCA was invented by Jörg Henseler and Theo K. Dijkstra in 2014, was subsequently fully elaborated by Schuberth et al. (2018), and was then introduced into business research by Henseler and Schuberth (2020b). Inspired by Hair et al. (2020), a recent article in the International Journal of Information Management (Motamarri et al., 2020) used the same term ‘confirmatory composite analysis’ as a technique for confirming measurement quality in partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) specifically. However, the original CCA (Henseler et al., 2014; Schuberth et al., 2018) and the Hair et al. (2020) technique are very different methods, used for entirely different purposes and objectives. So as to not confuse researchers, we advocate that the later-published Hair et al. (2020) method of confirming measurement quality in PLS-SEM be termed ‘method of confirming measurement quality’ (MCMQ) or ‘partial least squares confirmatory composite analysis’ (PLS-CCA). We write this research note to clarify the differences between CCA and PLS-CCA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102399
International Journal of Information Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CCA,Confirmatory composite analysis,Composite models,Emergent variables,Structural equation modeling,Partial least squares structural equation modeling
Journal
61
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0268-4012
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Geoffrey S. Hubona100.34
Florian Schuberth231.78
Jörg Henseler324912.57