Cross-National Industrial Mail Surveys: Why Do Response Rates Differ between Countries?

By Anne-Wil Harzing. 2000

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Extrinsic and intrinsic drivers of corporate social performance: Evidence from foreign and domestic firms in Mexico (2010, unknown): “Although the overall response rate (121 divided by 800, or 15 percent) is low, it is in line with existing research in Mexico (Harzing, 2000; Husted and Allen, 2006) and among executives more generally (Bouquet et al., 2008).”
Response Rates In Hospitality Research: An Overview of Current Practice and Suggestions For Future Research (2020, result): “These observed differences in response rates in different regions are in line with prior research (Harzing, 2000).”
Linking employees' justice perceptions to organizational commitment and intention to leave: The mediating role of perceived organizational support (2006, background): “Such a response rate can be considered acceptable given that it has been noted that the response rate of mailed surveys in Hong Kong was the lowest among various countries (Harzing, 2000).”
The impact of intellectual capital management on company competitiveness and financial performance (2013, background): “In order to ensure that the respondents fully understand the questions and to raise the response rate by reaching non-English speaking respondents (Harzing, 2000), the survey items were translated into the respective languages of the countries in the sample.”
International attention and multinational enterprise performance (2008, methodology): “…effective response rate in the range 15% (136/900) to 17% (136/782), a level considered appropriate by general standards of cross-national research (Harzing, 2000), and which compares favorably with other surveys focusing on high-ranking MNE executives (Simons, Pelled, & Smith, 1999; West &…”
Survey response rate levels and trends in organizational research (2008, methodology): “For example, Harzing (2000) found that individuals were more likely to respond to a questionnaire if they were from a low average power distance country (Hofstede, 1980).”
Women's Perceived Empowerment in Entrepreneurial Efforts: The Role of Bricolage and Psychological Capital (2019, background): “As a low response rate is common in South Asian countries (Harzing 2000), face-to-face meetings provided an opportunity to increase response rates.”
Overcoming the liability of foreignness without strong firm capabilities — the value of market-based resources (2010, background): “Although low, the response rate is not atypical for research onmultinational subsidiaries (Frost et al., 2002; Harzing, 2000; Harzing, 1997) and probably reflects the dual difficulty of obtaining responses from executives and from developing country firms, both of which are known to be challenging…”
External Sources of Knowledge, Governance Mode, and R&D Performance (2005, background): “These response rates are not as high as we would have liked, but they are higher than average for international mail surveys (Harzing, 2000).”