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What price consultancy?

This paper is written from the viewpoint of a London-based market research agency which undertakes all types of international market research. The paper is primarily concerned with the opportunities that may exist for the researcher in the middle...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Michael Wilsdon

June 15, 1988

Possibilities and impossibilities of standard business-to-business research

The paper shows that standard methods in business-to-business research have a very promising future when one looks at the market developments. It will be made clear, however, that these possibilities are only very short-term and that the marketing...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Dick Heinhuis

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988

Introduction to the seminar

The programme of this seminar is based on three lines of thought: a) previous business-to-business research seminars had been mainly technique- oriented b) one major change in the last 5 years or so, as far as we are concerned, has been a gradual...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Daniel Debomy

Company: OPTEM

June 15, 1988

The growing need for advice on how to integrate market strategy, product development and internal marketing

The business of market research has been slow to appreciate the need to define our clients' marketing problems before we look for market solutions. When at long last we seem to have realized this, we must be very careful not to view these problems as...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: J. S. Thune

June 15, 1988

Getting close to business

In the UK increasingly business to business researchers are beginning to operate in a business partner, rather than simply a data supplier, role. In this paper three UK business to business research practitioners discuss some of the challenges and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Authors: Justin Gutmann, Stephen Ellis, David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

June 15, 1988

Business-to-business research, evolution towards consultancy?

The question that the paper addresses is whether companies currently engaged in conventional business to business research should evolve into consultancy. The first section begins by establishing definitions and setting out the general approach that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Business To Business Research

Author: Peter J. Jackson

June 15, 1988

Business travel monitor

This paper shows the possibilities of business-to-business-research to outline the business travel market. The Business Travel Monitor, a yearly research project, covering 4000 business-establishments, creates additional ways for market segmentation...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Travel And Tourism Research

Authors: Eric Sondervan, Ad Schalekamp

Company: NIPO

May 4, 1988

Whither business-to-business research

A postal survey was carried out among 519 agencies in Europe listed in the ESOMAR 1985/86 handbook and 60 IMRA agencies who do not have an ESOMAR member. 1. 114 of the 170 ESOMAR member agencies who returned a questionnaire conduct some business to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Author: Johan Aucamp

September 1, 1987

Corporate image purchasing analysis

The choice of a specific manufacturer (brand) or supplier in the business-to-business market is not only determined by company performance, e.g. price, quality and time of delivery, but also by a company's corporate image. Corporate Image Purchasing...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Authors: J. N. van der Veld, Erik-Jan Borgmeijer

Company: Motivaction International B.V.

September 1, 1987