Resources Library by ANA

Perceived risk

The fact that only a minority of Austrian households hold securities and other long-term forms of saving can only in part be explained by a lack of ability to save. The risk perceived by the saver seems to be a further important reason why the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Author: Günter Schweiger

August 28, 1977

Teaching consumer behaviour in Europe

The paper examines some of the problems involved in teaching consumer behavior in management education programs in Europe. These stem in large measure from the current embryonic stage of research in consumer behavior in Europe, which make it...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Authors: Susan P. Douglas, Bernard Dubois

June 1, 1976

Range versus rationalization in frozen foods

There is not so much a conflict between "range" and "rationalization" as a need for balance between the two: a need to determine the "rational range". The starting point towards this goal is to allocate store space to grocery commodities in relation...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: J. F.W. Yaxley

August 1, 1975

The bank new customer behaviour and communication simulation models

The present study develops a System which explains resultant data (opening new check-accounts) in terms of causal measures (customer behaviour) and enables Management to set strategic plans, to control and evaluate them.The System of the present...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: The Use Of Market Research In The Financial Fields

Author: Alexandre Thabor

February 1, 1975

Innovation in the male fashion market

This paper is based on the preliminary findings from a survey of 500 male suit purchasers (together with a qualitative investigation of 100 of the respondents' wives) . The survey was designed to elicit information on aspects of consumer behaviour...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Fashion, Research And Marketing

Author: David F. Midgley

December 4, 1974

Consumer behaviour prediction and the modelling approach

In this paper, traditional methods used by market researchers to predict consumer behaviour are criticised and the argument put forward that a formal modelling approach is the only way that reliable predictions can be made. Such an approach may...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Peter Sampson

September 1, 1974

Consumerism

TNA has been investigating social trends as they affect consumer behaviour. Five groups of trends have been covered and the fifth group of trends, namely Consumerism, which is discussed in detail in this paper. The paper discusses studies of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning

Author: Elizabeth H. Nelson

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1973

Consumer behaviour and the buying decision

Marketing as a problem - solving science is profoundly involved in the study of consumer behaviour. All management decisions concerning marketing activities and researches are founded in some way on hypotheses regarding the behaviour of consumers and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning

Author: Mihail C. Demetrescu

June 15, 1973

Some comments on the use of "models" in advertising research

I have recently become aware of, and concerned with, the special problems facing market researchers and advertisers . Like many of you, I came to this conference a bit skeptical about the role that academic ideas and "models" could play in market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Translating Advanced Advertising Theories Into Research Reality

Author: Martin Fishbein

June 15, 1971