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Dental consumables

This paper looks at how a company (Claudius Ash) in an unsophisticated market (dental supplies), who had never used market research before, combined quantitative interviews and group discussions to develop and refine their service product and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: New Product Development

Author: Simon Fitall

June 15, 1990

Cultural lag at Sweden's workplaces

In the early decades of this century it was not uncommon for someone to be worn out by 50 after a lifetime of hard labor. The notion that the age of 50 is a marker separating the productive from the less productive worker lingers on in many quarters...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Greta Frankel

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1989

Research in the 90's

The need exists to bring the individual back into the forefront of research, whether qualitative or quantitative. It is predicted that in the ’90’s, the mean score and the group discussion will decline in prevalence & disaggregated data...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Michael M. Roe, Rory P. Morgan

September 1, 1988

Estimating cognitive structure from qualitative data

The paper describes a method which estimates consumers' cognitive structure with regard to a certain product class from qualitative data, l.e. data In the form of raw text. The raw text is first translated to a series of cognitive categories by means...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Micro And Macro Market Modelling

Author: Klaus G. Grunert

October 26, 1987

Out of the darkroom into the daylight

The paper is a case history about research in the European market for contacting and duplicating film, which is widely used in the graphic arts industry (i.e. among commercial printers, reprographic specialists, typesetters and platemakers). Having...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Authors: C. J. Dove, Christine M. Eborall

September 1, 1987

The contribution of market research to the programme planning of an independent local radio station

This paper describes and discusses a survey conducted by Kay Brandon on behalf of Radio Haliam with the objectives of assessing the success of the Station's programming strategies in meeting the needs of the adults living in the transmission area,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Authors: Keith Skues, Kay Brandon

June 15, 1987

Qualitative research models in representative longitudinal studies

The call for "qualitative" research is always heard when the standardised methods which primarily measure quantitative relationships are unable to explain a change in the market or to explain it adequately. In this situation, attention is focused on...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Improving The Use Of Consumer Panels For Marketing Decisions

Author: Jochen Hansen

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1987

Questionnaire design

This chapter is mainly concerned with the design of structured questionnaires for use in face-to-face interviews. It does not deal with the development of guides for depth interviewing nor with the problems of questionnaires for special populations,...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: J. Marton-Williams

August 1, 1986

Interviewing and field control

It must be stressed that, in this chapter, we are concerned with the role of professionally trained research interviewers who alone should be responsible for this vital phase in any project.

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Authors: John F. Drakeford, Valerie Farbridge

August 1, 1986