Business respondents' behavior: Main and interaction effects of delivery method, questionnaire length, and time of the week

Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-88

  Greer, Thomas V ^a   Chuchinprakarn, Nuchai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial mail survey; Response behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650010776     PISSN: 1051712X     EISSN: 15470628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J033v06n01_03     Document Type: Article

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