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Driving Africa - Women. Now!

The paper throws light onto the attitudes held by women, across ages and cultures, in the reality of the 'new' South Africa.It is based on a four month syndicated qualitative study undertaken in the middle of 2001, using a variety of elicitation...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Qualitative Ascending Conference 2002

Author: Christiane Gabriel

November 10, 2002

Development of a trust barometer

There is an increasing demand for companies to be held as accountable towards multiple stakeholders in society as they are towards customers and shareholders. Despite the high awareness of good corporate governance and the mounting reporting on the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2003: Management, Accountability and Research

Authors: Retha Groenewald, Andrea Rademeyer

Company: Ask Afrika Pty Ltd

September 14, 2003

Tailoring media research to users' needs

This paper both demonstrates that (at least in South Africa) media research does influence media planning and also shows the considerable value of measuring (rather than assuming) the needs, satisfactions and dissatisfactions of media data users.

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Media Research- Does It Really Affect Media Planning?

Author: Michael M. Brown

June 15, 1984

The hen and chicken approach to multicultural research

This paper gives an overview of the complexity of South African society, with special reference to cultural, language and geographical differences. It clearly illustrates that South Africa has a variety of cultures similar to the United Europe - but...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Danie Malan

September 1, 1994

The Internet and the changing role of market research

Internet based research is very experimental in nature due to the rapid development of the Internet. Because of this rapid growth, theory has been slow to catch up. As Harris (1997) points out, marketing activities on the Internet can largely be...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.10: Marketing Research in a .com Environment

Authors: Peet Venter, Meyer Prinsloo

June 15, 2000

Black options to apartheid

A socio-political study was conducted in the KwaZulu-Natal province of the Republic of South Africa in the second half of 1988 for the Indaba, a pressure group for constitutional change. It was conducted in an unstable environment on a topic related...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Caroline M. A. Harben, Peter J. Badcock-Walters

September 1, 1989

Third world meets first world

Huge changes are occurring in South Africa. Change in Africa has occurred, as it has in Eastern Europe, as a result of social, economic and political pressure. Some of these social and economic pressures are discussed in this paper. Thousands of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1990: Using Research For Marketing In The 90's

Author: Timothy D. Cooke

September 1, 1990

From black & white to colour

The release of ANC leader Nelson Mandela and unbanning of the ANC in 1990 the eradication of all apartheid legislation from the statute books in 1993 and the first democratic multiracial general election in April this year have introduced dramatic...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Christiane von Ulmenstein

September 1, 1994

Your repertoire or mine?

Because of the increasing number of channels available to subscribers in the pay TV environment in South Africa, including niche channels, information on viewing habits with regard to cross channel-viewing becomes important. This paper focuses on...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Heather Kennedy

June 15, 1998