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Slow to moderate economic growth prospects in advanced industrial countries

In the first part, the various possible physical constraints on economic growth are analysed The conclusion is that there are no absolute physical limits to food production and that there is no universal or absolute physical scarcity of raw...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Laszlo Unger

Company: Givaudan

June 15, 1982

Using social surveys for prediction

This paper illustrates some of the ways in which sample survey data can be used to make predictions about aspects of society. It examines the use of data from continuous surveys to make short term predictions based on time series and the use of...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Frank E. Whitehead

June 15, 1982

The personalisation of the institution in order to establish the images of the major British banks

This paper describes the experimental application to the identification of bank images of a technique previously used to differentiate between consumer goods such as lagers and perfumes where differences were subtle. The approach is based on the use...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: John F. Swift

June 15, 1982

The pessimism with technology

Based on systematic typology analyses, seven clearly defined types of attitudes towards technology today and in the future were elaborated. A negative attitude towards technology is not an attitude that is widely distributed. Individual groups...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Claus Merbold

June 15, 1982

The evaluation of the psycho-sociological and socio-cultural approach in the elaboration of the marketing policy followed by the Credit Lyonnais in the 70s (French)

In response to the far-reaching changes that have occurred in the banking industry since the early 1960s, we were led to resort to sophisticated research, constantly broadening the field of factors brought in to explain our customers' behaviour In...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: Bernard Sue

June 15, 1982

The future of television audience measurement in Europe

The objects of this paper are firstly to consider the key elements associated with the choice of research techniques (Section 2) and then to examine the recent changes taking place and their effects on consumer choice of broadcast material and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Author: Stephan Buck

June 15, 1982

The impact of generic supermarket products in the United Kingdom

In 1976 the first generic range was launched by Carrefour in France, since when the concept has been adopted in many parts of the world. Their penetration has varied considerably between countries, depending in part upon existing own label strength...

Catalogue: Paper 1982: Profitable Cooperation Of Manufactures And Retailers

Author: Peter McGoldrick

June 15, 1982

The Italian woman in the 1980s

The research, which was carried out in different phases (qualitative/quantitative) and with a sophisticated methodology on a final sample of 3000 women, clearly highlighted the greatest variability of the universe of Italian women. A particularly...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Authors: Arnaldo Aisa, Luisa Pogliana

June 15, 1982

The London experiment

We may take the primary objective of the basic readership survey in each country to be to obtain for large numbers of publications estimates of average issue readership that are repeatable and stable, acceptably accurate and free from biases between...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Author: Pym Cornish

June 15, 1982