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How the possibilities for new market-segments for a planned hotel in Lahti, Finland were investigated

The city of Lahti offered a site for a new hotel in a city where there was already overcapacity of hotel rooms, and where the prospects of natural growth of tourism did not encourage construction of any new capacity. However, one of the local hotels...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Author: Reino E. Routamo

June 15, 1983

Predicting the sales potential of new products

The paper reviews the applicability of the main market research methods which predict the sales potential of new products in fast-moving consumer goods markets. In particular, it examines a class of techniques - Simulated Test Markets - usage of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Simon Godfrey, Jon Wilkinson

June 15, 1983

Welcome to the conference

Opening speech to the Conference from the Committee.

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Authors: Eugene J. Kelley, Winston Wood, Kazuaki Ushikubo, Michio Torii, Ivor Shalofsky

June 15, 1983

Comparative industrial buying patterns in high level economies

Despite the fact that well over 1000 articles appeared on industrial purchasing in the past two decades, relatively little progress has been made toward understanding and predicting buyer behaviour patterns. The key reason for this phenomenon, in our...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Peter M. Banting, David Ford, Andrew C. Gross, George Holmes

June 15, 1983

Is 'taste' international

One of the longest running arguments in international marketing is whether the same product should be marketed in a wide range of countries, or the individual requirements and taste of each country be allowed to predominate. This paper illustrates...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Frank H. Winter, Derek C. Martin

June 15, 1983

Comments on achieving successful advertising control

This paper deals with the problem why the contribution to knowledge gained through researches not sufficiently transferred into practical results. Given a contribution it will only be possible to apply it generally to practical problems if it is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Erich Weihs

June 15, 1983

The contribution survey research can make to the decision-making process

The following paper reports on a dialogue held between the President of the German Constitutional Court and the author. This dialogue was set in motion indirectly by an article the author published in 1979 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1983

Family decision making and information processing

The purpose of this paper is to analyze information processing mechanisms as they operate in multi-member (household) decision making units. Based on 400 Information Display Board (IDB) experiments conducted separately with husbands and wives in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Bernard Dubois

June 15, 1983

Research into export opportunities of small and medium size companies

Two of the export organizations, each acting on its own responsibility, commissioned a wide scale survey in 1982. The purpose of this survey was to establish which bottlenecks are encounted by exporting small and medium-size companies in their export...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Theo Hess, Linda Keemink

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1983