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Determining the price of a product in the pharmaceutical market

Price sensitivity (or elasticity) is an aspect which has always had to be faced as an integral part of pre-launch and post-launch research in the consumer fields. Now it has to be faced seriously in the pharmaceutical field. But can we just take the...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1994: Meeting The Pressures By Intelligent Resourcing

Authors: Nigel J. Burrows, Graziella Dupasquier

June 1, 1994

The challenge of continuous improvement...The integrated data source approach to market research

The paper is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the factors which will lead advertisers in general, and one advertiser specifically into complementary data sources to the traditional data banks preferred by marketers, or those preferred...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Richard S. Wilson, Roger E. Godbeer

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

May 1, 1994

Problems in marketing market research

This paper is based on the findings of a case study done amongst local companies in the UAE who do not use research. The purpose of the paper is to identify the resistances and blocks that restrict the use of marketing research in the region with a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Authors: Ahamed Hilmy Cader, Ravi Miglani

January 1, 1994

The best is yet to come

Since the introduction of the counter sorter in the 1950's the use of computers in MR has developed from an occasional tool into an integral part of much of the research process. It is evident, however, that the computer is not merely 'useful' in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: A. E.V. Dent

September 1, 1993

From building brands to building businesses

This paper examines the relevance of market research as a discipline to the area of business strategy; and makes the case that market research can contribute significantly, not just in the area of building brands but in the area of building...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Arun Adhikari, Titoo Ahluwalia, Rama Bijapurkar

September 1, 1993

An innovative application of conjoint analysis in satisfaction research

The idea that customers may not be satisfied while at the same time not be dissatisfied has been expressed repeatedly in the consumer satisfaction (CS) literature. This article relates the development of an innovative application of conjoint analysis...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Author: Jordan L. Le Bel

September 1, 1993

Why the drive for quality?

In this paper we seek to show that the market research industry in the UK has had two distinct phases in which it has thought very hard about quality. These phases can be linked with different aspects of product performance as described by Levitt's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Martin Callingham, Greg Smith

Company: Whitbread

September 1, 1993

Quality in market research

In this paper the authors argue that it is inevitable that initiatives such as BS5750 will continue to pick off the more concrete, tangible aspects of the market research process that most readily lend themselves to the specification of required...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1993: The Many Faces of Quality Now And In Future

Authors: Andy Dexter, David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

September 1, 1993

My problem is your problem

The paper is a critical account of the experience of the authors of qualitative market research in the developing countries of the world which have led them to draw up a set of guidelines for qualitative market research. It is put forward that the...

Catalogue: Qualitative Research 1993: A Critical Review Of Methods And Applications

Authors: Tom O'Dwyer, Hala Al-Bassam

Company: Unilever

June 15, 1993