New Approaches to Surveying Organizations

摘要

We have described some practical strategies for economists who want to conduct surveys on organizational practices. These involve using double-blind survey techniques, with open ended questions against absolute scoring grids, while also collecting background controls for potential survey bias. We also suggested the resurvey of a five percent sample of the original group using different interviewers and respondents within the same organizations to help to validate the methodology. The exact methodology will rest on the research question at hand, but we believe most of these steps should be adopted by researchers aiming to run high quality organizational surveys.