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Who should educate whom?

This paper considers the educational needs of market researchers and how they can best be employed to further the growth and prosperity of the profession as a whole,. It starts from the premise that market research is a practical business discipline...

Catalogue: Workshop 1976: Educating The Effective Marketing Decision Makers

Author: Gerald de Groot

June 1, 1976

A marketer's view

As an integral part of Marketing Management, Marketing Research must certainly service the needs of the user, once these have been clearly defined. It would, in my view, be quite wrong, however, to let Market Research play a passive role in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: International Market Research

Author: Alexander Christiaan Helfrich

Company: Shell Global

April 1, 1976

Family buying decisions

This paper will look on the different ways people come to their purchasing decision if they live in multi-person households. We show this, in a study with 155 of such households and 1239 persons aged over 10 living in it, a survey sponsored by DAS...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Ernst Braunschweig

August 1, 1975

Standardizing 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? At one extreme is the view that one basic advertising theme is desirable because of similarities in points of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Steuart Henderson Britt

August 1, 1975

Evaluation process models

The choice or decision process of a consumer passes off along several stages. The general sequence of the stages in the decision process is: 1. problem recognition, the felt need for a product or a service; 2. decision to spend money on a product...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Market Modelling

Author: Willem Frederik van Raaij

June 1, 1975

A note on relative validity

In my own approach to modelling, I try to bear three questions in mind: A) Does the approach generate sufficient confidence to lead to application?; B) Does the application produce improvement in planning/decision making?; C) Does the gain from this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Market Modelling

Author: J. Aspden

June 1, 1975

Image research and the retailer

There is a tendency among market-researchers and market-research agencies, to standardise and to keep to current methods and techniques which have been found suitable in practice, with the result that a full adaptation to the problems posed does not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: N. G. H. Krans, C. Goud

September 1, 1974

The use of marketing research in large French companies (French)

One of the main problems concerning marketing research is that of the effective use of the results and their integration into the decision-making process. Although much effort has been devoted to the improvement of research methods, one has in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Patrick Le Maire, Yves Evrard

September 1, 1974

The baptism of the trade off model in Europe

Two main themes are pursued in this paper. Firstly, we discuss how a new research method: the trade-off model was used in the context of a major project, focussing particularly on the problems encountered and how these were solved. Secondly, we...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Dick Westwood, Peter J. Hayes

September 1, 1974