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Brake, motor, petrol or motor oil?

The paper deals with the tasks and roles of researchers in the innovation process. These primarily derive from the nature and the final purpose of an innovation. The central thesis is of this paper is that the prime role of marketing researchers in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Authors: Udo Reuter, Teresa Monjardino

Company: IMW-KOELN GmbH & Co. KG

September 1, 1999

Research for innovations and innovation management

The first part of this paper focusses on the process in which ideas for innovative products and services are found. The process of developing a product that can be sold from the customer's idea of what will be needed in the future and the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Authors: Gert Autz, Peter Huijbers

September 1, 1999

Trend seeking

This paper aims to demonstrate that international studies give a new meaning to studies predicting future trends including the detection of where new trends develop (in what circles etc.); understanding how trends spread in a given country and how...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Authors: Ron Beasley, Catherine Becker

Company: ABM Research Inc.

September 1, 1999

A paradoxical approach to support innovation policy

This paper aims to demonstrate that innovation has never been more important to companies and that the ‘paradox approach’ is an important ally to come up with genuinely innovative proposals for products and services. The authors show that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Authors: Jean-Pierre Fourcat, Christine Woesler Panafieu

September 1, 1999

Ask a cyberquestion!

This paper examines the development of the Internet as its relates to marketing and the role of online customer research. It looks at the changing relationship between marketer and customers, the impact of virtual communities, the development of...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.8: International Marketing Research

Author: David Pring

September 1, 1999

Asset management in changing retirement markets

In coming years, the global asset management market will be affected by changes in the business, investment and legislative environment. In particular, changes to the way in which companies organise the provision of retirement benefits to their...

Catalogue: Financial Markets In Turbulent Times 1999: Guidance From Marketing Research

Author: Mervyn Flack

September 1, 1999

Beyond post-perestroika Russia and post-communism Eastern Europe

The constructs of individualism-collectivism are examined as a basis for understanding Social Change and emergent Consumer Segmentations in Central Eastern Europe. These cultural values at a macro level drive the emergence of consumer segmentations,...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.8: International Marketing Research

Authors: Rupert K. Tower, Peter Cooper

September 1, 1999

Consuming values

The paper focuses on the shifting relationship between consumers and objects of consumption. It suggests that postmodern consumption in which experiential consumption is foregrounded forces us to rethink boundaries between researchers clients and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Author: Rita Denny

September 1, 1999

Romancing the sands

Given that most multinational companies develop their products and services in the west their applicability for markets that are at a variance - cultural logistical or evolutionary - is suspect. This issue becomes more evident in the service sector...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Author: Dipen Mehta

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1999