Improving Survey Response Rates from Chief Executive Officers in Small Firms: The Importance of Social Networks

By S. Bartholomew, Anne D. Smith. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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Construct Validation Using Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA) (2010, background): “This is particularly problematic in fields such as entrepreneurship, where response rates have often been much lower than the management field as a whole (Bartholomew & Smith, 2006).”
Entrepreneurial Passion as Mediator of the Self–Efficacy to Persistence Relationship (2015, background): “In addition, response rates are generally lower when top management is the target (Bartholomew & Smith, 2006) since there is often a lack of slack time for small firm owners for such activities and slack time in the fall of 2008 was particularly problematic due to the downturn in the economy.”
Pathways of Passion (2014, background): “This response rate aligns with the average for mail surveys in the domain of entrepreneurship (Bartholomew & Smith, 2006) as well as for similar surveys of top management in entrepreneurial firms (Hmieleski & Baron, 2009).”
Perceived Labor Productivity in Small Firms—The Effects of High–Performance Work Systems and Group Culture through Employee Retention (2012, background): “Obtaining actual financial data from small firms is difficult (Bartholomew & Smith, 2006).”
The Effects of Business Failure Experience on Successive Entrepreneurial Engagements: An Evolutionary Phase Model (2018, methodology): “We identified relevant cases and informants for this study by using multiple methods such as direct approach, social networks, and the snowballing approach, which have been found to be very effective in conducting studies in underdeveloped societies (Bartholomew & Smith, 2006; Tayeb, 1994).”
Shifting family involvement during the entrepreneurial process (2007, background): “found an average response rate on 56 per cent in leading management journals, whereas Bartholomew and Smith (2006)”
Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation (2013, result): “The final sample of 158 thus corresponds to a response rate of 5.9%— a rate relatively consistent with other studies using D&B databases for research on entrepreneurs (cf. Hmieleski and Baron, 2009), and for surveys of upper-echelon managers (cf. Bartholomew and Smith, 2006).”