Exploring Market Research - Softcover

Zikmund, William G.

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9780030262180: Exploring Market Research

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ISBN 10: 0030262186 ISBN 13: 9780030262180

Publisher: South-Western, 1999

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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.

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Barry J. Babin has authored over 70 research publications in some of the most prestigious research periodicals, including the JOURNAL OF MARKETING, THE JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, THE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, THE JOURNAL OF RETAILING, PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS, PSYCHOLOGY AND MARKETING, and THE JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE, among others. Babin is currently Max P. Watson, Jr., Professor of Business and chair of the department of marketing and analysis at Louisiana Tech University. He has won numerous honors for his research, including the Louis K. Brandt Faculty Research Award from the University of Southern Mississippi (on three occasions), the 1996 Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) Steven J. Shaw Award, the 1997 Omerre Deserres Award for Outstanding Contributions to Retail and Service Environment Research, and the Academy of Marketing Science’s Harold W. Berkman Distinguished Service Award. He is a former president of the Academy of Marketing Sciences and the Society of Marketing Advances, and he currently serves the marketing editor for the JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH. Babin’s research focuses on the effect of the service environment in creating value for employees and customers. His expertise is in building and understanding value that leads to long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with employees and customers. His primary teaching specialties involve consumers and service quality, marketing research, and creative problem solving. A frequent international lecturer, he has presented in Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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