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The evolution of marketing

This paper proposes that marketing in different product sectors and in different national cultures changes over time in a consistent and predictable way. The progress from commodity selling to post-modern marketing is based on evolutionary...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Author: Mary Goodyear

September 1, 1999

Charting the cultural future of markets

This paper presents a framework for charting the cultural future of markets, from the standpoint of developing ‘culturally insured’ marketing strategy for a firm. It is drawn from our experience of having to forecast the cultural future of...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.8: International Marketing Research

Authors: Rama Bijapurkar, Virginia Valentine, Monty Alexander

September 1, 1999

The future- predictable or otherwise

The thesis of this paper is that senior executives in most companies (if the major pharmaceutical companies are a fair indicator of corporate management) have little incentive to anticipate the long term let alone act upon it. Any paralysis toward...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Stephen Godwin

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1998

Shifting form a circuit to packet world

The paper examines trends emerging in the telecommunications industry by considering the business and network strategies of a new breed of entrants such as Qwest and Level 3’s referred to as bandwidth carriers and considers the assumptions...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Competition And Innovation In The Telecommunications Industry

Author: Eric de Fontenay

June 15, 1998

Birds of a feather phone together

The fast development of mobile telephony in many countries has surprised many forecasters. However based on the results presented here we believe that using a value-based approach could have reduced the gap between projections and market reality ...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Competition And Innovation In The Telecommunications Industry

Authors: Michael Bjorn, Michel Ladet

June 15, 1998

Analyzing and forecasting world markets

Assessing the size and nature of national, regional and global markets for specific products has become both simpler and more difficult in the past twenty-five years. Compared to earlier large information gaps, many data points are now available....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Andrew C. Gross, W. Benoy Joseph

September 1, 1997

Business, spirituality and the new millennium

This paper traces and explains the interrelationship of three important fin de siecle phenomena as they are occurring in North America: 1) the intensification of socio-psychological responses to the end of the second millennium and the approaching...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Author: Hazel Kahan

September 1, 1997

Conjoint analysis

This paper begins by discussing the components of a conjoint paradigm and the alternatives within each. This is done to introduce a discussion of three issues: the concept of a “best” paradigm, the use of preference share as a predictor of...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1997: Sharpening Tools For The Future

Author: Roger Brice

June 15, 1997

Development of petrol retailing in the United Kingdom

This paper describes the revolution in petrol retailing in the United Kingdom; a revolution initiated by the major supermarket operators and which has resulted in the oil companies losing 25 % of their market share and f 1 billion in revenues. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: The Changing Retail Scene

Author: Jonathan P. Shingleton

Company: The BPRI Group

June 15, 1997