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How to overcome the recession?

In this contribution we investigate the dynamics in the population of enterprises. Enterprises are established or taken over, expand or suffer cut-backs. The result of the development of all these individual firms is the economic change which...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Dirk Huisman

Company: SKIM

June 15, 1982

Determining optimum pricing in closed universe prediction panels

The examples in this paper are drawn from one example of 'closed universe panels' ie. Sharescale Panels, which are set up on an ad hoc basis to measure particular product fields, usually to test the effect that a new brand might have in that field....

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Author: John Parfitt

June 15, 1982

Using long-term studies in marketing planning

According to Kotler planning means "to decide at the present time what needs to be done in the future." Marketing planning forms part of the overall planning of an enterprise. The marketing-mix being a combination of various kinds of marketing...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Walter Tacke

June 15, 1982

A climate of doom

Intrigued by many references to a possible climate of doom in the Netherlands and a lack of social research related to this subject, the Nederlandse Stichting voor Statistiek (NSS) undertook a study of this phenomenon. Based upon the research it was...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Arnold de Vos

June 15, 1982

The consumer and the policy-maker

The first study discussed was undertaken by Consumers' Association (CA) on behalf of the Environment and Consumer Protection Service of the EEC. This was essentially a small-scale methodological exercise, CA's brief being to recommend to the EEC a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Michael Warren, David Yelding, Antony Keith

June 15, 1982

Not born yesterday

The subject of this paper is the application of research in the child and youth markets as a speciality within the sphere of marketing research as a whole. The main thrust of the paper concerns the application of one particular discipline - in this...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: David Cocks

June 15, 1982

Alternative behaviour in the Federal Republic of Germany Potential and trends

In 1981 STERN magazine released the survey "LEBENSZIELE - Potentiale und Trends alternativen Verhaltens" (Aims in Life - The Potential of and Trends in Alternative Behaviour), the first complex representative analysis of "alternative" movements among...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Ortrun Venth

June 15, 1982

Consumers' distribution work in turbulent time

The shopping habits of Finnish households were studied for the first time extensively in 1975. Since then there have been changes in the structure of the retail trade, and the consumers' social and economic environment has also changed in many...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Uolevi Lehtinen, Ilkka Leind

June 15, 1982

Measurement of retail sales beyond the normal packaged grocery products

The paper describes an attempt to measure retail sales beyond the usual measurement of branded packaged groceries. It explains why the attempt should be made, especially by an independent television contractor; it examines the method used to obtain...

Catalogue: Paper 1982: Profitable Cooperation Of Manufactures And Retailers

Author: Hugh Johnson

June 15, 1982