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Positioning of the (agrochemicals) marketing research manager in an international company

This paper, which is a personal view intended to stimulate debate, starts with the premise that any consideration of the positioning and role of the agrochemical marketing research manager in a diversified international company cannot be isolated...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Agricultural Marketing Research in Europe

Author: Ian Donald Farquharson

Company: Shell Global

June 15, 1985

From 70,000 to 177,000 subscribers

On March 15 1970 the board of directors and staff of Misset met to consider one of the first multi-year plans. The market situation and possibilities were discussed. Extra attention was paid to the situation in agriculture, concerning both the market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Agricultural Marketing Research in Europe

Authors: Vincent W. M. Koning, Han van den Berg

June 15, 1985

Counselling without moralizing

This papers presents the main results of a research study aimed at defining the communicational strategy to be applied through a national TV campaign promoted by the French Committee on Health Education, and concerning alcoholic overconsumption.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Eliséd Veron

Company: SORGEM IMR

June 15, 1985

The mini parliament technique (German)

Especially in local politics of small towns and communties the formulation of objectives and the development of decisions is highly intransparent. The new method provides applicable results for the decision-taking procedure of honorary persons acting...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Authors: Klaus-Christian Kleinpeld, Claus Merbold

June 15, 1985

Quality, financial services and research

The exercise of summing up the content of these three days of work - in which 23 papers were presented, and a great number of contributions were made in the debates - requires a review of the topics discussed, and the injection into them of some...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Assessing And Improving The Quality Of Financial Services

Author: Gabriele Morello

June 15, 1985

Extending the geographic scope of research to Eastern European shortage economies

The objective of this paper is to study the nature of the marketing research task in Eastern European countries. The need for this type of analysis steins from the fact that most research procedures, whether for domestic or for international...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Authors: Jozsef Berács, Nicolas Papadopoulos

June 15, 1985

Identifying opinion leaders

This paper presents an instrument which serves to identify opinion leaders, a simple "strength of personality scale" developed by the Institut fur Demoskopie Allensbach and sponsored by the Spiegel Publishing Company. Testing the instrument with a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1985

Improving corporate and strategic decision-making in West Africa

The paper describes how qualitative research conceived on a very large scale and analysed by a multi-disciplinary team, can help to establish a data-base of value to decision-makers in all areas of marketing in West Africa. The AdAfrica project is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Mary Goodyear

June 15, 1985

Qualitative research in Europe

The paper comments on qualitative research as it is carried out at present in Europe according to different 'styles'. What is referred to as the "new" qualitative research is discussed and the view expressed that it has emerged from dissatisfaction...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1985