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What is market research?

This booklet is intended to give a brief outline of what market research is all about and what its principal methods and techniques are. It has been prepared by ESOMAR mainly to help potential users who would like to know more about this specialized...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Publications

Authors: Jack Hamilton, ESOMAR B.V.

September 1, 1989

The press conference is not enough

The paper draws attention to the poor perceptions of public relations by both practitioners themselves and their clients, examines the reasons for this and postulates that the adoption of professionally conducted research and planning will go some...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Gillian S. Greenway

September 1, 1989

Creativity in quantitative research (German)

Both market researchers and their clients subscribe to the notion that there are "two cultures": On the one hand, there is qualitative research with depth interviews, unstructured interviews with a small number of respondents. This is the creative...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

September 1, 1989

Global communication

Our hypothesis is that "corporate" communication is sub-divided in three entities which enact different rationalities: the discourse of the enterprise, of a legal and economic nature ; the institutional discourse, of a political and ethical nature ;...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Yves Krief

Company: SORGEM IMR

September 1, 1989

Semiometrics

Semiometrics is a speciality which is designed to bridge the gap between the qualitative and quantitative approaches of market analysis. It provides a means of explaining behavioural and attitudinal differences by reference to differential...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Emeric Deutsch

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1989

The role of research in corporate restructuring

This paper will discuss the concept of corporate identity as it is currently understood in Japan and will illustrate the Image/Identity Management Model which has been developed by Landor Associates to accommodate the Japanese-style Cl concept. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Marlyn (Mim) Ryan

September 1, 1989

A research prototype for developing and assessing a pan-european marketing strategy: A case history

This paper describes the contribution of multi-country market research studies to the development and implementation of a pan-European marketing strategy for a major international high technology firm. Previously, this firm had utilized a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Wayne T. Smith, Hal Hendler

September 1, 1989

Black options to apartheid

A socio-political study was conducted in the KwaZulu-Natal province of the Republic of South Africa in the second half of 1988 for the Indaba, a pressure group for constitutional change. It was conducted in an unstable environment on a topic related...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Caroline M. A. Harben, Peter J. Badcock-Walters

September 1, 1989

Managing scanner data

In West Germany a retail scanner panel is successfully operated by an independent, non-profit organisation jointly owned by retailers and manufacturers. User companies now have easy and cheap access to raw retail panel data, gdp Marktanalysen...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Clemens Steckner, Rainer Aldag

September 1, 1989