Resources Library by ANA

How methodologies are adopted to provide internationally comparable results

For many years, a debate has been going on, sometimes heated, other times controlled, about the quality of research that is being carried out in the Middle East and how it compares to that of the larger European countries. Why this should be so owes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Yiannis Papadopoulos

June 15, 1987

The changing human values in Kuwait

This study, the first of its kind in the area, provides a model and basis for future studies in order to monitor changes in the moral and social values system overtime, and gives a useful tool for institutions to assess their current policies in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: D. Philippi

June 15, 1987

How extra strong research helped launch extra strong teabags

The research programme was valuable in two main respects. First, it was early experience of a simulated test market in the region which helped in making a launch/no launch decision. In the event the major parameters predicted by the LOCATOR test were...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Authors: Janet Katz, Charles A. Rhodes

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1987

Retail audit panels in the Middle East

This paper describes the experience of AMER in setting up and running retail audits in the region. This is confined to our experience because this is the first open discussion on the subject and we cannot, therefore, refer to the experience of our...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Tony Antoniou

June 15, 1987

Methodological problems associated with multidisciplinary research concerning international construction industries with particular reference to the Middle East countries

The aim of this paper is to examine some of the methodological problems associated with multidisciplinary research in international construction firms and to make recommendations about how such problems can be alleviated. This paper gives an insight...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Adnan Enshassi

June 15, 1987

The use of video as an advertising medium in the Middle East

The paper examines the impact of advertising on rented video cassettes on the advertising scene in the Middle East and specifically Saudi Arabia, and the way in which household panel research has been used to monitor this development.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Charles A. Rhodes, George V. Vassiliou

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1986

Problem solving in industrial marketing research in the Middle East

The paper presents the practical difficulties that an industrial researcher faces when undertaking a survey in the Middle Bast. The techniques and the approach are overall the same as in the West, but the task is that much harder. Desk research is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Problem Solving In Industrial Marketing

Authors: George V. Vassiliou, Costas Kaimakis

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1986

The potential for gold jewellery in the Middle East

This paper describes the application of qualitative research in a project to investigate the existing market and the potential for gold jewellery in the Middle East. The first section sets outs the background to the project and the objectives. Then...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Qualitative Methods Of Research

Authors: George V. Vassiliou, Rosemary Taylor

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1986

How can we relate European standards to research in the Middle East?

The main objective of this paper, therefore, is to show through a series of examples and specific applications how the Middle East Marketing Research Bureau has applied and adapted modern market research techniques and standards across the whole...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: George V. Vassiliou

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1984