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It's all very well in theory...

This paper examines some of the practical problems facing the survey researcher in the motoring field. It uses the example of three specific projects to illustrate ways in which such problems have been tackled by an adaptive, innovatory or flexible...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Gerry E. Levens

September 1, 1974

Market research and the decision maker

In the course of preparing a paper that would do justice to the chosen title, one becomes conscious of how broad and relatively unexplored the subject is. The issue of how to get market research used by decision makers has not been a popular topic...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: John Palmer

September 1, 1974

Consumer attitudes toward marketing activities

The study presented here is an inventory of how the consumer experiences and evaluates modern marketing. Material presently available regarding this question consists mainly of theoretical treatises, hypothesis and, above all, opinion. Consumer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Andreas Winkler

Company: GfK

September 1, 1974

The application of opinion polls in legal practice

During the last 20 years, the application of opinion polls has become an essential component of legal practice in matters concerning the protection of industrial property. In other legal sectors, for instance civil or penal law, the application of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Dietrich Gorny

September 1, 1974

Marketing research criticized by consumerism

There are primarily four fields in which, in the stage of information collection, points of attack by consumerism are to be found: 1. Different models of consumer behaviour; 2. Neglected feedback of ex-post information; 3. Short-sighted strategy of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Guenther Müller-Heumann

September 1, 1974

In which terms is the problem of media planning set today?

Where is the limit, in this field, of the computer's role? Is there, on a short-term basis, further progress to be made? 1. The aim of the advertising message; 2. The factors enabling us to attain this aim; 3. The two levels of the media-planning...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Jean Francois Canguilhem

September 1, 1974

Integrated research

The emergence of the project of integrated research in the socialist countries is closely linked to multilateral cooperation between the CMEA countries, and to the urgent need to improve the management control and planning activities of the bearers...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Miroslav Holda

September 1, 1974

Order form research for trade conscious marketing

Now is a common practice to measure the degree of availability of a brand at the point of sale, scarcely anyone has given thought to investigating how this availability comes about and what factor influence it. In this case, the order form is not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Manfred Schürmeyer

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1974

Practical considerations of the technique of telephone interviewing

The paper concerns with the practical aspects of telephone interviewing, but does not attempt to enter discussion concerning the characteristics of the telephone owning population. The authors have had experience over the past two years of using the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Derek Simonds, Gordon Haymes

September 1, 1974