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Research, media and society

The purpose of this paper is to show how marketing research applied innovatively and interacting with companies non-governmental organisations and the media was able to spur the Brazilian society to modify its basic cultural values thus becoming...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1999: The Race For Innovation

Author: Oriana Monarca White

September 1, 1999

Market research and democracy

This chapter addresses the critical question of how market research can develop at a point in time when more and more consumer consultation mechanisms are being developed. The question we face is whether market research as a discipline will be...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Peter Cooper

September 1, 1998

The Eurowinter project

This paper describes how an international research project using standard quota sampling methods was used as part of an epidemiological study investigating the relationships between cold weather and excess winter mortality in eight different...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Colin McDonald

Company: McDonald's Corporation

September 1, 1998

Beauty and the business

This paper provides a psychological and economic analysis of the development of ecology in a free market as observed in Germany in the last decade. The problems involved in simply defining what ecology means and the resulting question of how to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Stephan Götze

September 1, 1998

The effect of computer-assisted interviewing on data quality

We start our review with a taxonomy of different types of computer-assisted interviewing and a discussion of data quality. Next we present a model of the factors that may lead to differences in data quality between computer assisted and traditional...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.6: Market Research And Information Technology

Authors: D. De Leeuw, Joop J. Hox, Ger Snijkers

August 1, 1998

Rural socio-economic classification

This paper is intended to provide a much needed social grading for rural India. The problems in defining a rural socio-economic classification in India are presented and the previous efforts in this direction are discussed. The drawbacks of these...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Adding Transparency To Brand Management

Authors: Bikramjit Chaudhuri, Sophie Josep, Ravindra Godase

June 15, 1998

Asian values

Personal values are a valuable tool in differentiating people and market segments. For many the concept of Asian Values has been offered as a reason why things are done differently in Asian countries. This paper looks at data from a study carried out...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific Conference 1998: Marketing in Asia- Meeting The New Challenges

Author: John Gabriel

June 15, 1998

The European Union

This paper describes the development of a feasibility study amongst top decision-makers in the European Union carried out on behalf of the European Commission. The survey was conducted in all fifteen member states of the Union and covered five main...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Jacqueline Spence, Nicole Jamar

September 1, 1997

Diagnosing poverty in Latin America

This paper proposes a methodology to diagnose poverty in Latin America, a useful tool in the design of social policies. The method assumes that poverty is not merely the lack of basic resources - income or of goods - but rather the outcome of a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Author: Patricio Moyano Galdames

September 1, 1997