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The qualitative approaches and their anticipatory function

How can future factors be detected by a qualitative approach? Two considerations flow from that question: 1. The emergence of new experiences and perceptions remains latent in large part for lack of concepts, of mental images, of words to define them...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Jean Deslandes, Sylvie Motte

June 15, 1986

The researcher at the service of decision-making in collective build-up of the enterprise's project (French)

After summarily introducing the concept of ENTERPRISE'S PROJECT, the paper shows how useful it is to carry out psycho-sociological research in the build-up of the ENTERPRISE'S PROJECT; it puts in evidence the role of the researcher, acting in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Author: Pierre J. Burgaud

June 15, 1986

Diamonds for men (DFM)

For many years diamonds were strictly and exclusively linked to female stereotypes. De Beers' constant research into new markets had seen in males a new area in which to develop their products. This paper shows how through continuous research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Vanna Bonvini, Lia Colacicco

June 15, 1986

Integrating multi-country research into marketing strategy decisions

Multi-country marketing research studies are, by definition, complex projects. Conducting research on a consistent and comparable basis across countries with different cultures and different languages challenges all the researcher's skills....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Author: Donna Naeve

June 15, 1986

Overseas research

The paper relates a case history involving the development of a new range of small Philips colour televisions for overseas territories i.e. those outside Europe, the U.S.A. and Japan. Whilst such markets differ enormously, there are certain common...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Anton C. Jacobs, David N. Aldridge

Company: Philips International

June 15, 1986

Will the clients of different supermarkets of the retail chains be spilt into segments?

The retail trade in Finland is very much centralized; the four major chains dominate the market. Mass marketing by making use of mass media and mass bargains has been very powerful in the past few years. Segmentation of the consumers by shop chains...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Retail Strategies For Profit And Growth

Author: Leila Lotti

June 4, 1986

Sponsorship

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate: 1. The need for correct and detailed definition of objectives for sponsorship; 2. The possibilities that proper (marketing) research offers to measure the effects of a sponsorship.

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Authors: Franz Kohl, Ton Otker

Company: Philips International

November 6, 1985

A new challenge: Strategic research

My objective is neither to deliver a case history of the utilisation of surveys for strategic purposes, nor to present a new, revolutionary method. Rather, on the grounds of my dual experience as a Manager and a Consultant in the area of strategic...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Louis Tuvee

June 15, 1985

Identifying opinion leaders

This paper presents an instrument which serves to identify opinion leaders, a simple "strength of personality scale" developed by the Institut fur Demoskopie Allensbach and sponsored by the Spiegel Publishing Company. Testing the instrument with a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1985: Broadening The Uses Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1985