Fact-based understanding of business survey non-response

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-92

  Rasmussen, Karsten Boye ^a   Thimm, Heiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PFORZHEIM UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business survey; Fact based; Nonresponse; Regional development; Self selection; SMEs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957977011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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