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The fourth dimension and research

In 1970 the chairman of a large multinational company introduced the theme of the fourth dimension at the company's annual shareholders' meeting. He said that traditionally the company has recognised three responsibilities to customers, shareholders...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Authors: G. K. Morris, Robert M. Worcester

September 1, 1972

Agitative market research as a guide in developing new products

The attitude of the marketing people to market research fluctuates along with the business barometer. Market research is something of a whipping-boy: in moments of optimism, it is praised and asked to do more than it can, in periods of gloom it is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Peter Zernisch

June 15, 1972

The phenomenon of market saturation

The recent slowdown in the progression of the French vacation market prompts the hypothesis that a certain saturation point may have been reached. This hypothesis, of course, is not merely based on the evolution of a single short-term global index....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Paul Danloy

Company: IFOP

June 15, 1972

Data collection in research projects amongst the whole family

This paper deals with two case histories. The first is a study of the market (in Great Britain) for maps and was designed to measure details of the existing map population, the uses to which it is put and by whom. The second is a study of transport...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Authors: John A. Samuels, P. L. Atkinson

June 15, 1972

Typology of the attitude to information and decision-making of industrial executives (German)

The systematic examination of industrial decision making processes has gained increasing importance the last few years. The following paper will show how the results of such analyses can best be made use of for practical marketing activities. Based...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: J. H. Eggert

June 15, 1972

1971 present state of marketing in French firms (French)

Effective integration of techniques, marketing consultant's responsibility, firms' expectations in coming years: this evaluation is the outcome of a survey carried out in 1971 by GMV among a hundred or so French firms of varying sizes and activities.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: J. Giroire

September 1, 1972

A method of sampling for a tourist survey

The purpose in presenting this paper is to show how a pioneer method of sampling was carried out, how it was validated and the implications of this validation on tourism studies. Before going into the details of the method it might be of help if some...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: W. Miller Crichton

June 15, 1972

Data control's answer to marketing requirements

We have chosen to illustrate the theme "Prom market research to media plan" with three actual application which are amongst the most interesting of their kind, of the computer to the marketing process at the "plan" level. The diagram shows the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Jean Francois Canguilhem

June 15, 1972

Research for publishers

Market research can provide substantial help in formulating the editorial policy of newspapers and magazines, and yet very little has ever been published on this subject. It is impossible to do justice to such a broad topic in a single paper, but...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Authors: R. A. Roberts-Miller, Nigel Spackman

June 15, 1972