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Tell me a story!

In the papers on qualitative market research, which were read at the past two ESOMAR congresses, the slogan "new qualitative research" was formed. It referred to the presentation of a number of "new" methods and questioning procedures, part of which...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Author: Gerhard Batz

Company: PSYMA

June 15, 1986

The predictive value of qualitative research

The objective of this paper is to illustrate the validity of qualitative research as a predictive tool. The predictive value of qualitative research and its possibilities of anticipating problem-solving is presented here as based on its own...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Susana Tisler, Juan S. Alós

Company: Ogilvy

June 15, 1986

Deep, dangerous or just plain dotty?

This paper examines and questions some assumptions and practices in qualitative research which are obtaining current publicity. In particular, it explores the claims of the so called "new" qualitative techniques and questions their: A. Relevance to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Author: Gerald de Groot

June 15, 1986

The role of qualitative research in planning new industrial products

This study illustrates the use of focus group research in the development of a new product in a high-technology field. Most U.S. high technology firms conduct very little formal market research, and they rarely conduct qualitative market research as...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Problem Solving In Industrial Marketing

Authors: Eric Almquist, Yvette Kirby

February 26, 1986

Identifying opinion leaders (German)

This paper presents an instrument which serves to identify opinion leaders, a simple "strength of personality scale" developed by the Institut fur Demoskopie Allensbach and sponsored by the Spiegel Publishing Company. Testing the instrument with a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1985

Identifying opinion leaders

This paper presents an instrument which serves to identify opinion leaders, a simple "strength of personality scale" developed by the Institut fur Demoskopie Allensbach and sponsored by the Spiegel Publishing Company. Testing the instrument with a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1985

Improving corporate and strategic decision-making in West Africa

The paper describes how qualitative research conceived on a very large scale and analysed by a multi-disciplinary team, can help to establish a data-base of value to decision-makers in all areas of marketing in West Africa. The AdAfrica project is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Mary Goodyear

June 15, 1985

Qualitative research in Europe

The paper comments on qualitative research as it is carried out at present in Europe according to different 'styles'. What is referred to as the "new" qualitative research is discussed and the view expressed that it has emerged from dissatisfaction...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1985

Getting it done

This paper describes a system that I have been developing within the MRB International Group of companies: a system designed to overcome some of the problems associated with co-ordinating/quality-controlling qualitative research in multi-country...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Mary Goodyear

June 15, 1984