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The global village lives

This paper covers similarities and differences between countries and cultures which can affect how qualitative methodologies can be applied to offer comparable, research data to international marketers. The paper describes three ways of helping to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Conference 2001: The Business Value Of Emotional Intelligence

Authors: Jane Gwilliam, György Pásztor

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 28, 2001

Harmonisation of global television and radio audience measurements

Television is increasingly an international medium that transcends country boundaries. Similarly, for radio there is nowadays a keen interest in being able to compare audiences between markets. The requirement, therefore, for audience systems...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Peter Menneer, Gabe Samuels

September 1, 1998

Print media and television in the SummoScanner

This paper describes how far SUMMO has been able to go with its attempts to cover as many medium types as possible within one single source research instrument while maintaining a high degree of between- media comparability; it also outlines the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: Harold de Bock

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988

How methodologies are adopted to provide internationally comparable results

For many years, a debate has been going on, sometimes heated, other times controlled, about the quality of research that is being carried out in the Middle East and how it compares to that of the larger European countries. Why this should be so owes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Research In Arab Countries

Author: Yiannis Papadopoulos

June 15, 1987

Should multi-country advertising research be universal or unique?

Every time we are asked to do cross-national advertising research, we must worry about comparability of data across countries. Unfortunately, we still do not know the situations and conditions under which we can clearly justify a universal approach...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Jagdish N. Sheth

March 1, 1979

Software requirements for effective marketing and advertising information systems

This paper presents some of our experiences which bear on these points. The focus is on two issues: system design (a system overview, "consumerizing" research systems, and system design strategies) and multi-national system comparability.

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Authors: Leon Liebman, Daniel Olasin

March 1, 1979

Questionnaire monotony endangers the comparability of results (German)

Monotony and its side-effects have been dealt with in other areas. But monotony is powerful enough to adulterate the results. Noelle Neumann proved that the influence of monotony was visible even in simple inquiries, for example when ascertaining...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1976

Using an international group

This paper discusses the various approaches that can be used when conducting international research with particular reference to the benefits of working with a Multinational Research Company or Group. The approaches that a company can adopt when...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: International Market Research

Author: Ian Jarvis

Company: Burke, Inc.

April 1, 1976

Case history of a 16-country survey

In 1969 the European Editions of The Reader's Digest conducted a multi-country survey in 16 countries of Western Europe. I propose to tell you something of how we did it: the problems we met, the actions we took and what we think we learned....

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Multi-Country Research

Author: Edward W. Whitley

June 15, 1971