Raising Response Rates in Mail Surveys of Small Business Owners: Results of an Experiment

By W. Dennis. 2003

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Igniting the entrepreneurial spirit: is the role parents play gendered? (2007, background): “The 381 replies received represented a 44 per cent response rate that is respectable given that response rates for small business mail surveys average around 30 per cent ( Dennis, 2003”
Advancing the Field of Family Business Research: Further Testing the Measurement Properties of the F-PEC (2010, background): “Dennis, W. J. (2003). Raising response rates in mail surveys of”
A Three‐Country Comparison of the Business Success versus Failure Prediction Model (2010, background): “Survey research, particularly mail surveys, have been a staple in quantitative research on small business and entrepreneurship (Dennis 2003), in fact, an examination of four journals (ET&P, ISBJ, JBV, JSBM) revealed that one-third of the articles were based on mail survey (Newby, Watson, and…”
How Low Should You Go? Low Response Rates and the Validity of Inference in IS Questionnaire Research (2006, background): “It should be remembered that getting a higher response rate is often a matter of price (Dennis, 2003).”
Perceived Labor Productivity in Small Firms—The Effects of High–Performance Work Systems and Group Culture through Employee Retention (2012, background): “Not only do many small firms lack official financial records, they also face fluctuating demands for their products (Dennis, 2003).”