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Sources of error in the personal interview

This paper is concerned with the quality of the data derived from the personal interview. The possible sources of error at each stage of the interview are examined. Error arising from the selection of respondents by the interviewer, and from faulty...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1972

Author: Joan Macfarlane Smith

June 15, 1972

Configuration analysis as an instrument for making decisions in marketing

Configuration analysis is a procedure based on the Chi2-method. As far as we know, the German G. A. LIENERT orally reported on it two years ago for the first time. Since there are rather few presuppositions for its application, as experience has...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Erich M. Ruczinski

June 15, 1972

Typology of the attitude to information and decision-making of industrial executives

The systematic examination of industrial decision making processes has gained increasing importance the last few years. The following paper will show how the results of such analyses can best be made use of for practical marketing activities. Based...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: J. H. Eggert

June 15, 1972

Entropics methods and typological analysis

Perhaps one of the more fascinating aspects of taxonomy - of classification, that is, seen as a formation rather than as the identification of classes - consists in gradual research by "sifting", known as analysis of the latent structure, with the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Author: Giorgio Visintini

Company: DOXA

June 15, 1972

The main marketing (and research) problems of the communication industry (German)

After an introduction into the main problems of publishing today (selling on two markets, concentration, total competition, new technologies, etc.), the following work is subdivided into two main sections: 1. Marketing and research of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Uwe Johannsen

June 15, 1972

How to predict the performance of a package through experimental methods

Taking into account the evolution of distribution the function of the package has progressed from its original role of protecting the product to the more complex one of conveying its image . Therefore at present, our chief preoccupations in packaging...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: J. H. Talbart

June 15, 1972

Changes in market segmentation over time

In the type of segmentation referred to in this paper, which is generally termed 'cluster analysis', we analyse the data by a number of characteristics simultaneously, instead of sequentially as described above. The type of cluster analysis described...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Authors: Wendy M. Grosse, David Lowe-Watson

Company: ESSO

June 15, 1972

Prediction techniques for advertising & circulation

This paper discusses the uses of a number of forecasting techniques that have been investigated within IPC Magazines. Forecasts are required as part of one or more of the company's various planning processes which range from long term (up to five...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Marketing And Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: David Nicol

June 15, 1972

The distributor: Partner or customer? (French)

From investigation of a specific case, the changes in relations between the firm Manufacture Metallurgique de Tournus and the distribution trade, the paper will try to show that most of these complaints can be traced back to discrepancies between : -...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: M. Philippe

June 15, 1972