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Social research on a major European problem

The British Department of the Environment is conducting a programme of 22 research projects on the problem of the regeneration of the inner areas of British cities. The IFF project with which the paper is concerned is on the expansion of employment...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: Andrew Robert McIntosh

December 1, 1978

Children and television

The following paper represents part of a large research project commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education and Arts, Vienna. The primary purpose of the study consisted in gaining empirical data for practical application in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Gunda Plasser

Company: GfK

October 1, 1978

Implementation of marketing models

In efforts to improve "the return on capital invested in market and social research" models can play an important role. To this end models have to be built which can and will be used in private industry or in the public sector, that is, implementable...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Philippe Autor Naert, Peter S.H. Leeflang

September 1, 1978

Research on policy-making in the consumer union sphere

The Danish National Consumer Union was formed in 1946. On this background the present project has been carried out. The major tasks were: a) Identification of major dimensions along which consumers perceive consumer policies and consumer tactics; B)...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Authors: Folke Olander, Flemming Hansen

Company: AIM Create

December 1, 1977

The structure and the data-base of the marketing information system at Henkel

The author will outline how this MIS has been developed over two and a half year as an on-line information system via teleprocessing. During the step-wise development of this system, it was necessary to ensure that information of no-or little use was...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: Eitelfritz Cabus

June 15, 1977

Organizational problems in implementing information systems

Strategic management deals with the development of the basic ideas of the organization in order to stabilize and extend the contribution-inducement-balance of the interest groups. In this context we are only dealing with consumer benefits and the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: Erik Johnsen

June 15, 1977

Management information systems and marketing management information systems

In this paper we deal with the problem of designing a management information system (MIS) and one of its subsystems, a marketing management information system (MMIS). We want to show that a discussion about design principles of a MMIS is not feasible...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: A. Bosman

June 15, 1977

The dangerous quest for certainty in market forecasting

This paper shows how a large pharmaceutical firm developed a series of market forecasts in probabilistic terms, explicitly incorporating the principal uncertainties affecting the future sales of new pharmaceutical products. Such probabilistic...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Authors: Michael M. Menke, Jacques P. Pezier

March 1, 1977

Fiesta

This paper describes a comprehensive, Europe-wide program of marketing research carried out over a period of four years to assist development of an entirely new Ford small car: Fiesta. The research program, which was an integral part of the car's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: R. P. Smith, C. A. Molloy

September 1, 1976