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The democracy of opinion polls

I would like to suggest that the polling industry should not agonise too much about getting elections wrong. Error may be good for you; an occasional disaster can be good for the industry and good for the public. If polls were to have too long a run...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: David Butler

June 15, 1986

Unusual research for unusual advertising, mixing methods and minds

A striking new advertising campaign was produced for Benson & Hedges in France. Seven advertisements were prepared, and research was needed to establish, first, whether this campaign projected the image desired for the brand, and if so whether it was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: Colin Pendry, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1986

A cross-national view of consumer predispositions toward products from foreign countries

This paper discusses aspects of the "country-of-origin", or "made in", concept. This refers to the notation included on the labels of products that are sold in countries different than their country of manufacture. Although this is a legal...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Nicolas Papadopoulos, Louise A. Heslop, Françoise Graby, George Avlonitis

June 15, 1986

The qualitative approaches and their anticipatory function

How can future factors be detected by a qualitative approach? Two considerations flow from that question: 1. The emergence of new experiences and perceptions remains latent in large part for lack of concepts, of mental images, of words to define them...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Jean Deslandes, Sylvie Motte

June 15, 1986

The researcher at the service of decision-making in collective build-up of the enterprise's project (French)

After summarily introducing the concept of ENTERPRISE'S PROJECT, the paper shows how useful it is to carry out psycho-sociological research in the build-up of the ENTERPRISE'S PROJECT; it puts in evidence the role of the researcher, acting in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Author: Pierre J. Burgaud

June 15, 1986

Diamonds for men (DFM)

For many years diamonds were strictly and exclusively linked to female stereotypes. De Beers' constant research into new markets had seen in males a new area in which to develop their products. This paper shows how through continuous research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Vanna Bonvini, Lia Colacicco

June 15, 1986

Ethnic minorities

For reasons of clarity I limit the illustrations in this paper to culturally and linguistically different groups. The emphasis is on the comparison between the autocton Dutch and the Mediterranean group. Within the last population a distinction can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Author: Alfred E. Bronner

Company: Veldkamp Marktonderzoek

June 15, 1986

Changing media, evolving markets

New developments in technology provide television users with a variety of options concerning what program material to watch and when to watch it. Such changes affect not only viewer behavior but every aspect of the TV industry throughout the world....

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: Shula Bigman

June 15, 1986

The application of the N.L.P. (Neurolinguistic Programming) to qualitative research

This paper sets out to illustrate the application of N.L.P. to qualitative research and in particular to communication. It was born a year ago from a number of factors: first and foremost the growing difficulty in learning, even by means of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: Mimma Novelli, Gianni Fortunato

June 15, 1986