Increasing web survey response rates in innovation research: An experimental study of static and dynamic contact design features

Research Policy

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 273-286

  Sauermann, Henry ^a   Roach, Michael ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Incentives; Personalization; Response bias; Response rates; Survey timing; Web surveys

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LIFE CYCLE; RESEARCH;

INCENTIVES; PERSONALIZATIONS; RESPONSE BIAS; RESPONSE RATE; WEB SURVEYS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84870373142     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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