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Designing market research studies

In this chapter, we examine how market researchers set about designing market research studies. Market researchers will rarely be able to pursue their ideal’ design, so it is a process of compromise. Decisions have to be made about what degree...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: David Smith

September 1, 1998

Improving quality in multi-country projects by capturing its heterogeneity

This paper expresses a growing concern over globalisation and new market research demands and is a review based on factual experience regarding the problems and pitfalls facing multi-country research in Latin America with the purpose of helping...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Jorge Lipetz, Mónica S. Markwald, Jorge García-González

Company: Markwald La Madrid & Asociados

September 1, 1998

Perceptual discrepancies

Who among different groups of employees and customers is holding which views about a company and could the fact that they are holding different views be explained by any possible contextual variables? The results from a case study reveal that type...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Harald Djupvik, Gunnhild Bodding

September 1, 1998

The search for knowledge

A combination of growing prosperity and technological advances has brought a vast increase in complexity to many markets. Inevitably this has had a major impact on market research. Many simple techniques which used to work adequately now no longer do...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Stephan Buck

Company: Kantar TNS

September 1, 1998

Classification

Since the earliest days of marketing and social research, attempts have been made to group populations and survey respondents into classes: groupings which discriminate between people in ways which are considered likely to be relevant to the research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

September 1, 1998

Re-evaluating the importance of time

This paper is mainly philosophical in nature. It shows that there are a number of concepts within the theory - and application - of evolutionarybiology that can provide insight into some of the problems of brand management in a dynamic environment....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Martin Oxley

Company: Ipsos MRBI

September 1, 1998

Sampling

This chapter sets out to explain the concepts behind the use of sampling in market research. It outlines some of the main options available to the survey designer and discusses the way sampling is carried out in practice. More complex topics are only...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Martin Alan Collins

September 1, 1998

Market intelligence

The purpose of market intelligence is to provide management with the facts, information and insights it needs to make rapidly the best, most efficient business decisions. Well organised, market intelligence can be a substantial source of competitive...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Fredrik Nauckhoff

September 1, 1998

Datamining for better knowledge

This paper describes a way of using datamining techniques to provide more and better information to managers and to help them manipulate information knowledge and action. With three case studies from the telecommunications industry we intend to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Michel Jambu

September 1, 1998