HANDLING NONRESPONSE IN LOGISTICS RESEARCH

Journal of Business Logistics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 357-381

  Wagner, Stephan M ^a   Kemmerling, René ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Logistics research; Nonresponse; Nonresponse bias; Research methodology; Survey research

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953217618     PISSN: 07353766     EISSN: 21581592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2010.tb00156.x     Document Type: Article

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