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Early warning systems and firm survival

Innovation, in the context of invention taken to market, has long been identified as a key factor for growth of companies.This is particularly true for disruptive innovations, which radically change product and industry boundaries. Indeed, disruptive...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Authors: Phillip A. Cartwright, Philippe Silberzahn, Bernard Buisson

February 27, 2005

Slow research

This paper describes how the concept of 'slow' could be applied to market research. The author coined the concept of 'Slow Research' at the 2004 Technovate seminar.The idea was to describe a way in which both suppliers and buyers in the market...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Author: Jörgen Johansson

February 27, 2005

A market research training simulation

Market research training must form a part of marketers' educational programmes if we want them to employ and value it when they gain the reins of power as their careers progress. But how to do so in a manner that both excites and motivates them, when...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 2005: Innovate!

Authors: Jos Vervoort, Michael M. Roe

February 27, 2005

Integration of market research and database

This paper addresses the identification of business opportunities for the financial industry through integration of market research and databases.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference on Financial Services 2005

Author: Ignacio Macías

Company: GfK

February 1, 2005

Consumers, trends and trendsetters

The nature of 21st century trends is changing. The fragmentation of sub-cultures and the media has created a very different consumer landscape where assumptions about the influence of different sub-cultures are becoming obsolete.We are in the age of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Authors: Alex Maule, Nick Head, Lizzy Moroney

November 28, 2004

Pro-search

In this paper the authors would like to produce some ideas on improving the impact of qualitative research. By impact we mean a positive influence on the decision-making process and on the decision-makers.First the authors take a look at the field of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Authors: Frank van den Driest, Jochum Stienstra

November 28, 2004

Jambo Africa

The hypothesis of this paper is that current perceptions and practices on conducting market research in third world countries, and Africa specifically, are like putting a square peg into a deep, dark round hole.The result is usually one of two...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Authors: Jill Barnes, Solveig Shapiro

November 28, 2004

Signs and wonders

The success of semiotics as a research methodology has led to the absorption of some of its key methods into mainstream research (e.g. communication decoding, identifying emergent culture). If it is to have a future, semiotics must consider the role...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Author: Alex Gordon

November 28, 2004

Smashing the mould of qualitative research

Buyers and practitioners the world over are calling for innovation in qualitative research and yet there are definite expectations governing how qualitative research should be conducted.The authors outline the framework or mould that current...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Research Conference 2004

Authors: Jem Wallis, Neil Brooks-Jones

November 28, 2004