For undergraduate and graduate courses in marketing research.
With a do-it-yourself, hands-on approach, Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation illustrates the interaction between marketing research decisions and marketing management decisions. This text uses a practical six-step framework for conducting marketing research, utilising a variety of marketing companies to highlight qualitative and quantitative research strategies. The 7th Edition provides current, contemporary, and illustrative material sensitive to user needs. And with detailed emphasis on how to run the SPSS and SAS programs, marketing research students obtain the most extensive help available on this industry.
PART I: INTRODUCTION AND EARLY PHASES OF MARKETING RESEARCH
1. Introduction to Marketing Research
2. Defining the Marketing Research Problem and Developing an Approach
PART II: RESEARCH DESIGN FORMULATION
3. Research Design
4. Exploratory Research Design: Secondary and Syndicated Data
5. Exploratory Research Design: Qualitative Research
6. Descriptive Research Design: Survey and Observation
7. Causal Research Design: Experimentation
8. Measurement and Scaling: Fundamentals and Comparative Scaling
9. Measurement and Scaling: Noncomparative Scaling Techniques
10. Questionnaire and Form Design
11. Sampling: Design and Procedures
12. Sampling: Final and Initial Sample Size Determination
PART III: DATA COLLECTION, PREPARATION, ANALYSIS, AND REPORTING
13. Fieldwork
14. Data Preparation
15. Frequency Distribution, Cross-Tabulation, and Hypothesis Testing
16. Analysis of Variance and Covariance
17. Correlation and Regression
18. Discriminant and Logit Analysis
19. Factor Analysis
20. Cluster Analysis
21. Multidimensional Scaling and Conjoint Analysis
22. Structural Equation Modeling and Path Analysis
23. Report Preparation and Presentation
