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Exam 1 - Chapters 1-4 Mrkt Research Flashcards

1
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Data?

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Raw Information

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Information?

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Includes reorder points

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Intelligence Distinctions?

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Software program used to pullout information

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Objective?

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Unbiased

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Systematic?

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Planned

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Steps in Scientific Method?

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Make an Observation, Form a Hypothesis, Test or Empirical Observation, Theory or Conclusion

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Applied and basic research?

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Applied Research: Conducted to address a practical issue

Basic Research: Conducted to expand the limits of human knowledge

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Difference between applied and basic research?

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Applied to solve practical problems, basis is to expand human knowledge

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Product oriented?

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Superiority of Product

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Production Oriented?

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Superiority of process efficiency and or effectiveness

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Marketing Oriented?

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Providing value from the customer’s point of view

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Meaning of the elements of marketing orientation?

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Most companies are a mixture of both

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Situations in which marketing research is not necessary?

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5) Too quick, done many times, not worth it, amount of knowledge is not worth it,

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Characteristics of valuable information?

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Relevance, quality, timeliness, completeness

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Relevance?

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Relate to the decision/situation at hand; data “fits”

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Quality?

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Represent the true situation(accurate, reliable, valid)

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Timeliness?

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Current enough to be relevant

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Completeness?

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Not missing important parts or subsets

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Symptom?

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Observable cues that serve as a signal of a problem

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Problems?

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A situation that makes some negative consequence more likely

21
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Opportunity?

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Situation that makes some competitive advantage possible

22
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Exploratory research?

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Conducted to clarify an ambiguous situation or discover ideas that may be potential business opportunities

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Descriptive Research?

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Describes the characteristics of objects, people, groups, organizations, or environments tries to “paint a picture”

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Causal Research?

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Research which seeks to identify and measure cause-and-effect relationships

25
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Available Exploratory Research techniques?

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Expert interviews, Focus Groups, Pilot Study, Secondary Research

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Requirements of causality?

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Temporal Sequence: a occurs before b
Concomitant Variation: a and b vary in a consistent and predictable fashion
Absence of Confounding Variable (or “spurious association”): there is no other variable which influences a and/or b

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Characteristics of exploratory research?

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May not be representative of early research

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Relationship to Correlation?

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Correlation is two things happen together, they don’t always cause one another

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Independent vs Dependent Variable?

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independent variable = is one your changing. Dependent = thing your looking for from the result

30
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Advantages to research by outside agencies?

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Fresh perspective(avoid groupthink)
Objectivity(job loss potential; executive bias)
Special Expertise in subject matter, methodology, or geography
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Disadvantages to research by outside agencies?

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Expensive, slower

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Syndicated Research?

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Recurring Market share, quality)
		Ad Hoc (multi-client study) - Whats the walnut market going to be in Kazahakstan
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Standardized Research?

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Proprietary Technology (Eg research funding)
Proprietary Methodology (e.g. robustness)
34
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Custom Research?

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Zero-based approach

35
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Utilitarianism?

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English Enlightenment

36
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Deontology?

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the study of the nature of duty and obligation.

37
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Cultural relativism?

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.civilization is not something absolute, but … is relative, and … our ideas and conceptions are true only so far as our civilization goes.

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Ethical Dilemmas?

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a complex situation that often involves an apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another.

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Dilemma of observational research?

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Get their consent, they know their being watched so they behave differently

40
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Rights of participants in research?

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Confidentiality, Right to refuse, Do not call lists

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Examples of descriptive research?

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The men’s fragrance market

  • is one-third the size of the women’s fragrance market
    • is growing at a faster pace than the women’s market
    • Women purchase 80% of men’s fragrance
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Examples of causal research?

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Dependent variable is sales.

Independent variable might be almost anything

43
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Types of pseudo-research?

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undertaken only to prove or support a point of view

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