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New directions for innovation in products and services (French)

With my European colleagues in RISC, we conducted in 1981-1983 the initial cycle of an ongoing program called "Anticipating Change in Europe" (ACE). In this program, we have compared all the information available to us on change in society and among...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Author: Alain de Vulpian

Company: RISC S.A.

June 15, 1984

The contribution survey research can make to the decision-making process

The following paper reports on a dialogue held between the President of the German Constitutional Court and the author. This dialogue was set in motion indirectly by an article the author published in 1979 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1983

The increasing divorce rate

The emotional and financial upheavals occasioned by separation and divorce have lasting effects in many areas including peoples' behaviour and attitudes as consumers, even after they are re-married. Some of these changes are essentially functional as...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Tony Copeland, Susan Holder

June 15, 1983

The contribution survey research can make to the decision-making process (German)

The following paper reports on a dialogue held between the President of the German Constitutional Court and the author. This dialogue was set in motion indirectly by an article the author published in 1979 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1983

Slow to moderate economic growth prospects in advanced industrial countries

In the first part, the various possible physical constraints on economic growth are analysed The conclusion is that there are no absolute physical limits to food production and that there is no universal or absolute physical scarcity of raw...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Laszlo Unger

Company: Givaudan

June 15, 1982

Women at work

Like most European countries, Britain has attempted in recent years to attack discrimination against women, both by introducing penalties for discrimination, and by taking positive action to relieve disabilities which cause underachievement by women...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Social Change Analysis As A Tool For Strategic Planning And Decision Making

Author: Andrew Robert McIntosh

June 18, 1980

National value systems

Values are regarded as ordering principles for social action. This explains some of the scientific attention value problems have recently received. Is social change promoted by and linked to change in values? Are there both changeable and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Gerhard Schmidtchen

June 15, 1980

Improving the quality of life for ethnic minority groups

Although I wish to draw on research into ethnic minority groups for examples to demonstrate the hypotheses I wish to put, I see no reason why the same hypotheses need not apply equally to many other aspects of public sector social research. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: John Hanvey

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

December 1, 1978

Action research and social welfare

This paper discusses recent British experience of action research in government sponsored community action programmes, (Community Development Projects and EEC sponsored Community Resource Centres). It points to the common view which dismisses action...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Authors: Ray Lees, Nick Bailey

December 1, 1978