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Consumer studies

Even though it is usual practice to refer to "the consumer" when speaking about consumption behaviour - and it would be unrealistic to propose any other word - there can be no real understanding of what is new in this area without at least...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Giampaolo Fabris

June 15, 1989

The use of life-style research for the analysis of eating habits in Austria

The present paper contains the results of a typology concerning the eating habits of the Austrian population. The basic data were collected as part of a large life- style-survey among 4000 persons. Therefore it becomes possible to analyse far...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Gunda Plasser

June 15, 1989

A product's changing place in society

There are two main approaches to measuring a product's changing place in society, those that begin by monitoring social values and those based on measuring changing attitudes to the product itself. The differences in approach stem from concern with...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Ian D. Greig

June 15, 1989

Austrian consumer trends in the 80s (German)

In Austria the '80s have been characterized by profound altitudinal and behavioral changes which are, however, common to most Westem-European countries. The thrust: consumption is up and shows a hedonistic quality. The major antecedent condition for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Klaus Nemetz

Company: IMAS International GmbH

June 15, 1989

Changes in attitude to care of the elderly as a basis of a marketing strategy for insurance products

In Austria, as in an number of OECD-countries, the system of state-sub sidized provision for old age has, because of demo- graphic development, come in need of adjustment. The public did not become aware of this fact until the early 1980's, when...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Heinz J. Zeilhofer

June 15, 1989

Latent market positions

Market segmentation often requires that different sets of variables are taken into account. Examples are demographic, psychographic or behavioral variables. A combination of complicated techniques (e.g. canonical analysis, cluster analysisis and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Dirk Sikkel

June 15, 1989

Research on values and consumer trends in Norway

This paper is a brief presentation of the bi-annual survey called The Norwegian Monitor, an extensive survey mapping the value-pattern of the population. The value-pattern describes people's convictions and objectives in life, and can therefore...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Erik Dalen

June 15, 1989

A macro-simulation model of the cigarette market (German)

In a computer model simulating the development of the cigarette market in dependance of demographic structures a life cycle approach to smoking behaviour pattern was used. The essential parameters of this model are the rate of habit formation up to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Authors: Ernst Gehmacher, Franz Birk

Company: IFES - Institute for Empirical Social Research

June 15, 1989

Austrian consumer trends in the 80s

In Austria the '80s have been characterized by profound altitudinal and behavioral changes which are, however, common to most Westem-European countries. The thrust: consumption is up and shows a hedonistic quality. The major antecedent condition for...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: Is Marketing Keeping Up With The Consumer?

Author: Klaus Nemetz

Company: IMAS International GmbH

June 15, 1989