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Bringing merit to Europe

In June 1976 Philip Morris Europe mounted an extensive programme of product testing in an important European cigarette market for a new filter brand called "Merit". The Company intended to make use of the test results in Its launch advertising, this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Ivor Shalofsky

June 15, 1977

The role of new information technology in decision making

The thesis of this paper is that a new technology exists and that within the next generation, it will drastically alter the jobs of market researchers and the methods by which decisions are made. First, we will look at decision making, its past, its...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Samuel A. Wolpert

June 15, 1977

Uses of research for decision making in the social-political sphere (German)

Using the example of the German General Election 1976 we show how decisions can be reached with the help of survey research. Many examples are detailed: 1. Definition of the central theme of the election campaign; 2. Decision concerning the election...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1977

New insights from old information

In this paper experiences and results are presented in regard to marketing analyses within the dutch book publishing industry. In the first part a description is given of the general situation of the book publishing industry in Holland and the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Authors: Wil J. Botman, R. H. Da Silva

June 15, 1977

The integrated market information system in Poland

In Poland as well as in other socialist countries there is the three level management system on the market. The central level of management consists of many central institutions as: Cabinet, Central Planning Board and ministries. On the medium level...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Authors: Teodor Kramer, Leszek Zabinski

June 15, 1977

An evaluation of the use made of evaluation research in a national tourist board

The paper argues that this research, as well as providing a necessary check on the Board's marketing performance, should provide useful guidance to the creation of future marketing. In order to assess the extent to which such research has proved so...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Rodney A. Oliver

June 15, 1977

Generalizations from accumulating copy test results

Over four years, 323 print advertisements were studied for stopping power and/or communication. Stopping power is measured by exposing ads from slides on a magazine-size rear projection screen, for 1.25 sec. unless stopped by respondent; percent who...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Eugene C. Pomerance

June 15, 1977

Input/output models

This paper describes structure and result of the model M*I*C*I*0 (Modello Industria Chimica Input Output) prepared in order to: 1) determine a valid correlation between the development of the national economy and that one of the chemical industry; 2)...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Authors: C. Trabucchi, G. F. Corazza, S. Ghiringhelli

June 15, 1977

Is attitude segmentation in the holiday market a reliable predictor of future behaviour?

This paper sets out firstly to describe the historic development of market segmentation in tourism research, through a review of ESOMAR and other published sources. We then reconsider the fundamental methods and objectives of market segmentation and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Travel And Tourism

Authors: Dawn Mitchell, Len J. Marchant

June 15, 1977