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Operational research, market research and advertising

The distinction between operational research (OR) and market research is a clear one. The task of operational research is to predict and compare the outcomes of alternative management plans and decisions; the distinctive approach is to develop models...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1967

Author: Bernard Warner

August 1, 1967

What are the problems facing business firms? (French)

During 1962, my company - The Paul PLANUS organisation - carried out a survey on a sample of one in a hundred French business firms. Interviews were conducted with 160 firms. The purpose of the survey was to obtain information on the problems facing...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1967

Author: Yves Fournis

August 1, 1967

Management goals and marketing research

The following discussion points out that much research is unusable because it is conducted out of context with marketing problems. This in turn is linked to the historical development of the research function. Re-organization and integration of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1967

Author: Alexander L. Bie

Company: Ogilvy

August 1, 1967

International research problems

Research in marketing has a starting point in problems of business management. As in every organism the most important problems arise from interactions between that organism and its surroundings. A business is usually started to perform tasks that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Author: Jan van Rees

Company: Philips International

June 15, 1965

The identity crisis of the market researcher

The growth of marketing has also furthered the growth of two series of roles, one that of the Marketing Manager and another that of the Marketing Researcher. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the role of the researcher and its relationships...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Author: Kenn Rogers

June 15, 1965

Some applications of operational research to the problem of advertising

Management decision in the field of advertising is typically concerned with problems such as the size of the advertising budget, how the outlay should he distributed over time and within regions, what type of messages should be used and what media...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Yearbook 1963-1964

Author: David Lowe-Watson

June 15, 1964

A new model for a business game

In the realm of simulation techniques one must consider a certain number of objectives, fields of application, and methods. The principal objectives of such games are, to give individual attention to the formation of future decision-makers, to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1964

Author: Guy Serraf

June 15, 1964

The sentient ecosystem

This paper treats the marketing activity as a system which relates the producer and his market. Cyberneticians call this an ecosystem, a. word which is a contraction of the phrase ‘ecological system'. Ecology is that branch of biology which...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1964

Author: Stafford Beer

June 15, 1964

Market research and management decisions

This paper is concerned with management decisions about marketing in the consumer goods industries; and particularly with non-durables (e.g. food, drink, tobacco, household necessities) which account for a large share of total marketing activity in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1964

Author: N. J. Squirrell

Company: Procter & Gamble

June 15, 1964