Resources Library by ANA

Changes in the GP environment and its effects on promotion and market research

This paper sets out to explore the task elements and related time spending of a General Practitioners (GPs) working day and attempts to measure how, if at all, these are changing from year to year. The results are analysed with particular reference...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: The Changing Environment For Pharmaceutical Marketing

Author: Richard Gilmore

February 1, 1979

Understanding children

This paper is about marketing research with children, and the need to consider them as a special case when one is evaluating the efficacy of research methods.

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Authors: David Cocks, Jacqueline Adams

October 1, 1978

The industrialization of market research

The value for money issue is not a new topic, it is as old as Market Research (MR) itself. It has taken different shapes over time however, conditioned as it is by two sets of factors which have clearly followed a certain time path. The first set of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Author: Arie van der Zwan

September 1, 1978

Social research and market research

Market research is social research. If it is not - and every time it is not - social research it is not even "research", in that it cannot claim objectivity nor truth. In the past this has often been forgotten and has led to poor research. We have...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Author: Carlo Erminero

Company: Demoskopea

December 1, 1977

The telephonic group discussion: Is it really a new way?

This paper describes both technical conditions and qualitative aspects of telephonic group-discussions after three years of experience with this tool. Collecting different subscribers by telephone in a way that they can communicate freely together is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Ways And New Ways Of Data Collection

Author: Ralph Weill

Company: Konso Ltd.

November 1, 1977

The interface between medical and market research

Not more than three decades ago it would have been arduous to describe the role of the Medical Department in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Frequently confined to esoteric tasks and committed to distilling any medical information which could have...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Foresight Or Hindsight?

Author: A. Dubourg

Company: Abbott

March 1, 1977

Foreword

The future of animal protein production is a subject of considerable discussion, of flaring emotions and conflicting situations. This is not surprising because the changes in this sector of the economy have been so vast and come so rapidly that very...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: The Future Of The Animal Health Care Market

Author: Koos van Giezen

Company: Philips International

November 24, 1976

Market research applied to overseas markets

Overseas market research gradually came into being as a result of the need felt by export companies to obtain the kind of accurate information about their existing markets that was vital if they were to formulate any serious marketing policy. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Claire Donaud, John Kedzierski, Anne Bottier

Company: Unilever

June 15, 1976

Market research applied to overseas markets (French)

Overseas market research gradually came into being as a result of the need felt by export companies to obtain the kind of accurate information about their existing markets that was vital if they were to formulate any serious marketing policy. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Claire Donaud, John Kedzierski, Anne Bottier

Company: Unilever

June 15, 1976