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Enhancing the flow of meaning across cultural borders of mind and land

This paper examines some nine qualitative procedures intended to increase the meaningfulness of qualitative data obtained from diverse cultures. These devices are not new or unfamiliar. This paper makes a case for using these tools more deliberately...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: From International To Cross-Cultural Marketing

Author: Priya Tandan

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 1, 1997

Interactive PC technology in consumer panel research

The paper describes the evolution the ACNielsen Household Panel has undergone in the recent past, moving from a traditional collecting method to a technology-intensive method that integrates different tools. An example of possible applications is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Jennifer Hubber, Renato Mannheimer

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1997

Solving the problems of observational research

As a contribution to the growing discussion of ethnographic and observational approaches in market research, this paper takes up the issue of tactical decision making in implementing these projects. Clients tend to ask tactical questions first, when...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF/JMA Conference 1997: Fit for the global future?

Author: Hy Mariampolski

Company: QualiData Research Inc.

June 15, 1997

MUST

This paper describes how more market profit can be derived out of media data when: A) users are offered easy and practice-oriented access to the data, and when; B) new data are created which can provide answers to old questions. The problem is that a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Managing Media Data For Market Profit

Author: Erwin Weibel

November 11, 1996

The challenges for agricultural market research in the united Germany

After the political and economic opening of Eastern Europe towards the West, many companies which wanted to become active in these new markets asked quite quickly for market data. If any qualitative or quantitative market data on farm structures,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: European Agriculture In Transition

Author: Karl-Georg Herbert

Company: Produkt + Markt GmbH & Co. KG

June 15, 1992

Here's looking at you

In Britain, group discussions have traditionally been conducted in recruiters' homes. Over the past 10 years, there has been a tendency for more clients to want to observe qualitative research and research studios with one-way mirrors have started to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Freda Jones, Allyson Armitstead

June 15, 1991

Scan 5000

Scan 5000 is the first service tracking permanently consumer consumption and causal data related to the store where they are used to buy. In fact, only 6 % of the household are visiting occasionally large surface stores. In average, a french...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Marc Gauguier, Alain Pioche

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1988

A quantified study on what people do during commercial breaks

By using a mostly forgotten research technique of observation, we were able to obtain, in an unorthodox way, a clear insight into how television, including the use of all new technology, is used during the commercial breaks. We were also able to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: Chris Horsley

Company: Bates CHI & Partners

June 15, 1986

Mystery shoppers research

Mystery Shoppers Research records the actually observed behaviour contrary to other research which records behaviour afterwards. This type of research is a combination of field-experiment, observation-method and survey-research. In practice this...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Assessing And Improving The Quality Of Financial Services

Author: Rob H.M. van Leeuwen

February 1, 1985