Surveying Surveys and Questioning Questions: Learning From The World Bank Experience On Firm Surveys

1 1 A Survey of Firm - Level Surveys of World Bank Lixin

On the Effects of Organizational Culture on Organizational Performance: An Iranian Experience in State Bank Branches

While many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. To achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, Denison organizational culture model was used. The components of thi...

“Access to finance of SMEs: What can we learn from survey data?” Access to credit for Italian Firms: New Evidence from the ISTAT Confidence Surveys

Since the beginning of the recent recession, there has been a growing interest in timely information about lending conditions in the corporate sector: indeed, access to credit is one of the main channels through which a financial crisis may spread to the real sector of the economy. This may be particularly true in the case of Italy, where banking credit is by and large the main financing channe...

Results from the Third WWW User Survey

The tremendous success of the World Wide Web has led to an ever-increasing user base. Intuitively, one would expect this base to change over time as more people from different segments of the population become Web users and advocates. What exactly have these changes been? How do the original Web users differ from the new users from major online service providers like Prodigy? What trends exist ...

Surveying the Territory: GVU’s Five WWW User Surveys

Five years is not very long on most historical scales, but for the World Wide Web (WWW) it constitutes a lifetime. A question almost as old as the web itself is, "Who is using it, and for what?" One way to answer this question is to use paper surveys, telephone surveys, or diaries which are some of the the same methods used to measure the audiences of other one-way media such as television and ...