Exploring Marketing Research - Softcover

Zikmund, William G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0030981360 ISBN 13: 9780030981364

Publisher: Thomson Learning, 1993

Synopsis

This comprehensive, practical, and extremely student-friendly market leader offers the most up-to-date coverage of the current marketing research issues available. Intended primarily for undergraduates, this best-seller emphasizes such important issues as total quality management and global marketing research, integrating both topics throughout the text.

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Preface. PART I: INTRODUCTION. 1. The Role of Marketing Research. 2. Information Systems and Knowledge Management. 3. The Marketing Research Process. 4. The Human Side of Marketing Research: Organizational and Ethical Issues. PART II: BEGINNING STAGES OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS. 5. Problem Definition: Jump-Starting the Research Process. 6. Qualitative Research Tools. 7. Secondary Data Research in a Digital Age. PART III: RESEARCH DESIGNS FOR COLLECTING PRIMARY DATA. 8. Survey Research: An Overview. 9. Survey Research: Basic Methods of Communication with Respondents. 10. Observation. 11. Experimental Research: An Overview. 12. Test-Markets and Experimental Design. PART IV: MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS. 13. Measurement. 14. Attitude Measurement. 15. Questionnaire Design. PART V: SAMPLING AND FIELDWORK. 16. Sampling Designs and Sampling Procedures. 17. Determination of Sample Size: A Review of Statistical Theory. 18. Fieldwork. PART VI: DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION. 19. Editing and Coding: Transforming Raw Data into Information. 20. Basic Data Analysis: Descriptive Statistics. 21. Univariate Statistical Analysis. 22. Bivariate Statistical Analysis: Differences Between Two Variables. 23. Bivariate Statistical Analysis: Measures of Association. 24. Introducing Multivariate Statistical Analysis. 25. Communicating Research Results: Research Report, Oral Presentation, and Research Follow-Up. PART VII: COMPREHENSIVE CASES WITH COMPUTERIZED DATABASES. Appendix: Statistical Tables. Glossary of Frequently Used Symbols. Glossary u Endnotes.

About the Author:

William G. Zikmund, Ph.D., was a professor of marketing at Oklahoma State University until his death in 2002. He received his bachelor of science degree in marketing from the University of Colorado, a master of science degree from Southern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of Colorado. Professor Zikmund worked in marketing research for Conway/Millikin Company and Remington Arms Company before beginning his academic career, and he had extensive consulting experience with business and not-for-profit organizations. Professor Zikmund published dozens of articles and papers in a diverse group of scholarly journals, including the JOURNAL OF MARKETING, ACCOUNTING REVIEW, and the JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY. He was the author of the successful textbooks EXPLORING MARKETING RESEARCH, BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS, MARKETING, and EFFECTIVE MARKETING, as well as a work of fiction: A CORPORATE BESTIARY. Professor Zikmund was a member of several professional organizations, including the American Marketing Association, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Association for Consumer Research, the Society for Marketing Advances, the Marketing Educators¿ Association, and the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators. He served on the editorial review boards of the JOURNAL OF MARKETING EDUCATION, MARKETING EDUCATION REVIEW, JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE, and JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH. Professor Zikmund was an accomplished educator who strived to be creative and innovate in the classroom, and his books have been used in universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and North America, reaching more than a half million students worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomson Learning
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0030981360
• ISBN 13: 9780030981364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 834