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Qualitative research and the Internet

Do not panic! The Internet does not mean that traditional qualitative approaches and techniques will suddenly be replaced or supplanted by unwelcome, lower-cost, lower-quality, inferior substitutes from the cyber-realm. Indeed, the Internet-fed...

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

Authors: Ray Poynter, Patricia Quigley

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 28, 2001

West meets East

The paper describes key Japanese cultural aspects and the impact these may have when conducting focus group and one-to-one research methodologies. Many Western marketers (and Japanese, too) maintain a strong stereotype that you can't do that in...

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

Authors: Debbie Howard, Yumiko Nishigawa, Sue Pierssene

October 28, 2001

Ready, fire... aim

This paper argues that semiotic and cultural analysis is the best and quickest way to first assess what is going on in any marketplace, before embarking on any other kind of developmental consumer research. It shows why this form of investigation is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2001: Marketing Transformation

Author: Monty Alexander

September 23, 2001

ZOOM! Creating new interactive media platforms for children

This paper examines how WGBH and Applied Research and Consulting LLC conducted collaborative research that identified strategies for transforming ZOOM, a highly successful 1970s children's educational television show, into one of the most exciting...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2001: Marketing Transformation

Authors: Kate Taylor, Michael Cohen, Pat Tobin, Pamela Laws

September 23, 2001

Mergers and acquisition

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in the Indian pharmaceutical industry, and develop a framework, which would provide directions for a successful merger. In the context of a spurt in the number...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Global Healthcare 2001: Changes In Competitive Dynamics

Authors: Suday Karkera, Trilochan Raval

April 1, 2001

Carry on round the 'U' bend

The premise of this paper is that the use of a single qualitative research methodology - especially one which searches for understanding and insights away from the context in which behaviour is taking place - can result in misleading recommendations...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.4: Qualitative Research

Authors: Wendy Gordon, Richard Pike

January 1, 1998

Unusual research for unusual advertising

A striking new advertising campaign was produced for Benson & Hedges in France. Seven advertisements were prepared, and research was needed to establish, first, whether this campaign projected the image desired for the brand, and if so whether it was...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.2: Qualitative Research- The 'New', The 'Old' And A Question Mark

Authors: Colin Pendry, Margaret Holmes

January 1, 1987

Introduction

The debate should, however, take place in the mind of the reader. Section 1, ‘The “New” Qualitative Research: The Reasons Why?’ presents detailed explanations of the ‘new’ qualitative research, including, in an edited...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.2: Qualitative Research- The 'New', The 'Old' And A Question Mark

Author: Peter Sampson

January 1, 1987

The 'new' qualitative research: The how?

This comment suggests that good research, conducted by competent researchers, will achieve a considerable degree of agreement. It is not, after all, the intention (or the expectation) of the ‘new’ qualitative researchers to come up with...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.2: Qualitative Research- The 'New', The 'Old' And A Question Mark

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

January 1, 1987