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Qualitative research

"Qualitative research is: a) an attempt to capture the sense that lies within, and that structures what we say about what we do; b) an exploration, elaboration and systemisation of the significance of an identified phenomenon; c) the illuminative...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Mary Goodyear

September 1, 1998

What news from the eastern front?

Regular research in twenty ‘non-western’ but ‘new’ European countries helps decision makers at top political levels (European Union parliament) analyse and better understand the opinion of the general public in their respective...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Anna Melich, Mark Hofmans

Company: GfK

September 1, 1998

Sharing knowledge

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the sharing of information between retailers and manufacturers. Over the past five years there has been a revolution in the information that retailers have had at their disposal on which to make business...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Tim S. Bowles, James Brooks, Jean Pierre Gaucher

September 1, 1998

A socio-economic standard system of classification of respondents

Brazil may well be the country with the largest experience of using a uniform socio-economic classification system in the world. It adopted one such system in 1970, as a result of the recommendation proposed by a panel nominated by the National...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Pergentino Mendes de Almeida

September 1, 1998

Advertising research

A company communicates with its consumers in many different ways: media, the product itself, its packaging, its display material, personal communication, public relations, advertising and information about sponsoring. Although many of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Flemming Hansen

September 1, 1998

Beauty and the business

This paper provides a psychological and economic analysis of the development of ecology in a free market as observed in Germany in the last decade. The problems involved in simply defining what ecology means and the resulting question of how to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Stephan Götze

September 1, 1998

Site location studies and geodemographics

Most research projects have a geographical dimension - be it a geographically defined survey universe, geographical sampling locations or geographical analysis of the results. In this chapter, we show how knowledge of geography may be applied or can...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Barry Leventhal, Jonathan Reynolds

September 1, 1998

The glaring opportunity for value addition

Strategic market research is the glaring opportunity for value addition for market research - the customer is already in the board room in this era of customer-focused business strategy; the CEO is closely involved in the process of strategy...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Khushi Khanna, Rama Bijapurkar

Company: PepsiCo

September 1, 1998

The relationship between market research and competitive intelligence

The paper describes the relationship between market research and competitive intelligence and discusses the evolution of competitive intelligence: the definition the need it fulfills where it evolved and the penetration of the discipline by industry...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Ruth Stanat

Company: SIS International Research

September 1, 1998