Alternate/previous data source names: Gale Group New Products Announcements/Plus (NPA/Plus) SERVICE/PORTAL NAME: NPA/Plus, File 621 in Dialog Classic on the Web (http://www.dialogclassic.com), and also available through Dialog’s proprietary software service. Available through some industry channels on Dialog1 on the Web. Source description: Gale Group New Product Announcements/Plus (NPA/Plus) is more than just new product announcements [...]
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Questionnaire design
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Questionnaire design is key to both qualitative and quantitative research. In the former, even small samples can be investigated using semi-structured (or in other cases, unstructured) questionnaires to elicit answers and to probe interviewees’ responses. The questionnaire in quantitative research is used as a survey instrument with larger samples, normally containing structured questions for ease [...]
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How to make survey design
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Every research problem is unique in some way, and care must be taken to select the most appropriate set of approaches for the problem at hand. Nevertheless, although every research problem may seem unique, there are usually enough similarities among such problems to allow decisions to be made in advance, as to the best plan [...]
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Choice of scales in international marketing research
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A challenge facing cross-cultural researchers is the development of scales that measure a construct in multiple countries. In addition to all the issues related to achieving comparability and equivalence in the instrument, there is the underlying issue of whether the construct exists and can be measured using the same or similar instrument in more than [...]
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Measurement instruments: Reliability and validity in marketing
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Whenever items or individuals are measured, error is likely. Unintentional mistakes may occur when something under investigation is measured and the true response is sought but not revealed. This is common in research. Since virtually all research efforts are flawed. Marketing researchers must routinely measure the accuracy of their information. Researchers must determine measurement error, [...]
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Sampling
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Once the researcher has decided how primary data is to be collected, the next task is to obtain a sample of respondents that is representative of the target population. The main sampling techniques can be divided into probability and non-probability methods. In probability sampling each element of the population has a chance of being selected. [...]
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Sampling techniques
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Questionnaire design is key to both qualitative and quantitative research. In the former, even small samples can be investigated using semi-structured (or in other cases, unstructured) questionnaires to elicit answers and to probe interviewees’ responses. The questionnaire in quantitative research is used as a survey instrument with larger samples, normally containing structured questions for ease [...]
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