Resources Library by ANA

Multi-national, global, international or what?

Looking into the future, it is tempting to believe that markets, increasingly, will become 'globalised' and it is even more tempting to believe that therefore there is hope for standardised products in international markets. These temptations, I...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Author: Martin van Mesdag

June 15, 1988

Which dog? Which tail?

In real life central and decentralised research departments exist side by side. Their relative strengths depend on staffing, budgets and the stage reached by the company in the central vs local autonomy cycle. Since both types of department exist,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Authors: Jane Kalim, John Rutherford

Company: Shell Global

June 15, 1988

Towards a European standard for television audience measurement

The paper discusses the way in which new media are likely to develop in the immediate future and considers the implications of these changes for audience measurement systems across the European market. Existing systems are largely designed for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: Tony Twyman

June 15, 1988

An investigation of the creative approaches to the standardisation of international qualitative research studies

The question of standardisation of international qualitative studies has arisen in part due to the direct demands which global marketing and advertising is making on research. Because products and marketing strategies are being standardised, so it is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: Colleen Ryan, Shirley Kitchen

June 15, 1986

Centralised multi-national research in the travel industry

The paper queries whether the "international consumer" exists as such; in determining the best research method in multi-country research projects, it suggests that no single rigid approach (standardised comparability:non-comparability,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Peter B. Hodgson

June 15, 1984

Information technology bypasses boundaries

At this moment centralised international data collection via telephone is the most dominant form. Since it first started hesitantly in Europe about five years ago, enough experience has now been gathered to evaluate its benefits, its complications,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Emile M. C. van Westerhoven

June 15, 1984

The evaluation of below-the-line activity by ad hoc field research

The author has attempted to show that conducting ad hoc survey research to determine the effectiveness of below- the-line activities is a viable but difficult field to work in. Once a decision has been made as to what performance criterion variables...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Peter Sampson

June 15, 1980

Standardising advertising for the international market

Should advertising of various products and services be standardized in the international market, or are there too many cultural obstacles? Should gasoline or petrol products, a hand lotion, clothing, and other products be advertised in essentially...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Steuart Henderson Britt

June 15, 1980

European perceptions of competition and economic relationships between Japan, Europe and the USA

Gallup International was commissioned by Hakuhodo Inc., acting on behalf of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, to conduct a survey on the Image of Japan in Europe today. Approximately 1000 people were interviewed by the Gallup affiliates in each of the...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Gordon Heald

March 1, 1979