Partnership, marriage, hook-up or one night stand? Client and agency relationships in the digital age
David McCallum and Tomoko Nishi
Introduction
As with every other industry, the market research profession has seen continuous and accelerating transformation over recent decades. It has absorbed new methodologies, technologies and economic structures and embraced changing relationships between suppliers, clients and society. Of course, research is facing times of dynamic change and disruption. Yet so is every other sector; this has always been the case since time immemorial, the rate of change keeps accelerating. However, simultaneously, new tools and technology arise to deal with that...