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The little emperor

In the ever changing business environment of emerging markets such as China, the advantages of being a first mover are immense. While the importance of market research in new product development is unquestioned, all too often it is resisted for being...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Amit Bose, Khushi Khanna

Company: PepsiCo

September 1, 1996

Here today, here tomorrow

Historically, brand building has not been a high priority for many wholesale banks. However, in today’s increasingly congested banking environment, it is becoming more and more important for banks to differentiate themselves from the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Christof Buri, Andrew Findlay

September 1, 1996

The developing market of telecommunications

The first part of this paper discusses the perspectives and problems of multimedia market, focusing the difficulty in defining the dimension, the characteristics and trends of this market. The second part describes the difficulty of the market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Telecommunications In A Dynamic Market Place

Authors: Marina Chiaro, Susanna Cesarini, Carlo Santucci, Federico Palazzo, Manuela Murgia

Companies: TIM (Telecom Italia), RQ Ricerche Qualitative

June 15, 1996

Brief by name, brief by nature

The use of research by local companies in the Middle East region is increasing. While these companies understand the value of research and, in broad terms, what they want from a study, the buyers are often non- researchers who do not fully appreciate...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Author: Nigel W. Dix

March 1, 1996

Brand fitness

The objectives of our paper are to: 1. introduce the concept of brand fitness, 2. substantiate the essential role of research in fitness measurement, and 3. exemplify the use of a research technique that is an integral part of this measurement. Brand...

Catalogue: MENAP Forum 1996: Pressure On Profit

Authors: Harout Krikorian, Lance de Masi

March 1, 1996

Opening up the black box

The paper argues that, while we have refined the moderation of qualitative interviews, for reasons that are sometimes as much political as practical, we have neglected the study of the interpretation of qualitative data, consigning it to an...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Author: Virginia Valentine

December 1, 1995

Qualitative marketing research

For quite some time now, marketing researchers found themselves at a distance from the TRUE decision making level of marketing contexts. Now, as the marketing environment becomes increasingly complex, it is evident that the role of the marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Author: Marianne de Souza

Company: MSM

December 1, 1995

The technological fix in qualitative research

This paper questions whether the introduction of high technology as a tool for qualitative research can be viewed as an attempt to provide the qualitative output with a spurious quasi-scientific validity. We argue that the introduction of technology...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Looking Through The Kaleidoscope

Authors: Lesley Thompson, Richard Pike

December 1, 1995

Corporate identity

Market research is playing an increasingly important role in corporate identity programmes. Such programmes call for action-oriented research to guide specific decisions on current and desired image, in monitoring the marketing environment, and in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1995: Making The Decision

Authors: Philip Dover, Roy Croft, Robert Kopp

September 1, 1995