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Research for public transport investment

This paper discusses two major aspects of research for public transport investment. These are the provision of comprehensive and detailed journey data by all modes of transport for individual origin/destination areas, and the measurement of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Mervyn Flack

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

September 1, 1974

It's all very well in theory...

This paper examines some of the practical problems facing the survey researcher in the motoring field. It uses the example of three specific projects to illustrate ways in which such problems have been tackled by an adaptive, innovatory or flexible...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Gerry E. Levens

September 1, 1974

Marketing research criticized by consumerism

There are primarily four fields in which, in the stage of information collection, points of attack by consumerism are to be found: 1. Different models of consumer behaviour; 2. Neglected feedback of ex-post information; 3. Short-sighted strategy of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Guenther Müller-Heumann

September 1, 1974

In which terms is the problem of media planning set today?

Where is the limit, in this field, of the computer's role? Is there, on a short-term basis, further progress to be made? 1. The aim of the advertising message; 2. The factors enabling us to attain this aim; 3. The two levels of the media-planning...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Jean Francois Canguilhem

September 1, 1974

Integrated research

The emergence of the project of integrated research in the socialist countries is closely linked to multilateral cooperation between the CMEA countries, and to the urgent need to improve the management control and planning activities of the bearers...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Miroslav Holda

September 1, 1974

The Espresso case history

On the 10th, March 1974, the new Espresso came out: an issue of 128 pages in "Time" magazine format, which covered all the subject matter in the three sections of the old Espresso (Polit./Cult./Econ.). It is a format common to many other weeklies all...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Carlo Erminero, L. Rubini

Company: Demoskopea

June 15, 1974

Reader typologies and circulation research

This paper begins with a discussion of the aspects of The Economist's editorial and circulation which led to the commissioning of this research, together with a general background describing the publication and the information that was available from...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: A. J. B. White, Michael St. C. Hannah

June 15, 1974

Discussion opening on Mr. de Koning's and Mr. van Turennout's paper

Sugar's comment on the paper "How to operate the finance of a research company" by C. de Koning and P. van Turennout.

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Managing Market Research As A Business

Author: M. l. Sugar

May 1, 1974

The marketing mix of retailing firms and its strategic and research problems

In order to know the real mechanics of distributive structures, and particularly of their evolution, it is first necessary to identify and analyse the functions they have to fulfil and the way in which they are (or are not) fulfilled. Every retailing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Management Information For Retail Organisations

Author: Giancarlo Ravazzi

April 1, 1974