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<title><![CDATA[Editorial]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88627</link>
<author>Peter Mouncey</author>
<description><![CDATA[Editorial of IJMR Vol. 50, No. 6 2008.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viewpoint - MR confidential: anonymity in market research]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88628</link>
<author>John Griffiths</author>
<description><![CDATA[Anonymity of respondents, and their individual opinions, is usually considered sacrosanct within much of the research conducted by the market research industry. In this Viewpoint piece, John Griffiths argues that it is high time this view is reconsidered, as anonymity is rapidly becoming something of a fiction in today's world of databases. He advocates the development of new methodologies that dispense with this principle.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forum - Creating customer insight]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88629</link>
<author>David Cowan</author>
<description><![CDATA[Market research has often been accused of failing to identify either significant stepchanges in markets or new innovatory products. The possible reasons for this perspective, and the industry's perceived lack of strategic-level impact on client businesses, have frequently been debated, often without real evidence to identify the causes and demonstrate that solutions are possible. This Forum article, based on the winning entry to the 2005 MRS/AURA Insight Effectiveness Award, argues that all stakeholders in the research process need to think more strategically when defining the real issue, and take a holisticapproach in identifying the appropriate research solutions. All concerned should rethink the traditional, technique-based approach to problem solving often adopted within the marketing research process. Researchers need to first engage with the client's wider business in order to understand the real underlying issues, and then to develop a wider skill-set that will help clients create strategies that will lead to real competitive advantage.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Consumer savvy and intergenerational effects]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88630</link>
<author>Clive Nancarrow, Julie Tinson and Ian Brace</author>
<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the concept of consumer savvy, distinguishing consumer savvy from marketing savvy, and examine three ways of measuring consumer savvy in adults and children. The measurement of human intelligence has a 100-year history, so the modest intention at this early stage of exploration is to provide a first view of the conceptual and research issues relating to consumer savvy. The paper also presents early exploratory research on certain aspects of consumer savvy. These include intergenerational effects based on the relationship between the &#8216;know how' of a mother and her child. Implications for researchers academics and practitioners are also examined.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Collective forms of resistance: the transformative power of moderate communities]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88631</link>
<author>Daniele Dalli and Matteo Corciolani</author>
<description><![CDATA[This paper deals with collective consumer resistance &#8211; that is, organised forms of reaction against the market. In detail, it describes BookCrossing BC as an alternative mode of book exchange. This is a moderate form of resistance: BC members do not pursue radical, extremist or extreme forms of reaction. Moreover, they act in an alternative way gift-giving compared to the traditional market exchange system. They criticise the market system and their activity presents some interesting &#8216;transformative' properties. Not so paradoxically, these forms of moderate resistance in some way support the market in order to meet new needs: solidarity, democracy, consumers' emancipation. Many contemporary communities e.g. Wayn, Wikipedia, Couchsurfing seem to possess traits in common with BookCrossing. It is certain that they are not aimed at market subversion: they are aimed at using the market in a different way, in order to compensate for some of its drawbacks. Taken together, these communities collect millions of people around the world, and their role in the emancipation of the consumer society is growing rapidly.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turning the amplification up to 11]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88632</link>
<author>Geoff Wicken and Richard Asquith</author>
<description><![CDATA[Most of us would accept that word-of-mouth communication has huge potential, but the challenge for brand and media planners is to harness its growing power and influence in such a way that it delivers real commercial impact. This paper aims to demonstrate how the influence of word-of-mouth &#8216;Champions' can extend the potential of media communication channels. It considers not only the people that can be reached with a marketing campaign but also the extension into the people that they can then reach, and seeks to establish a framework that can be used to inform media planning decisions.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Decisions, decisions, decisions: multiple pathways to choice]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88633</link>
<author>Wei Shao, Ashley Lye and Sharyn Rundle-Thiele</author>
<description><![CDATA[This paper details an alternate methodology that permits the consumer decision process to be observed without the constraint of model phases or &#8216;sets'. A new custom-developed computerised process tracing methodology is utilised, identifying the decision wave boundaries in a durable product purchase scenario. The electronic process tracing methodology reveals multiple pathways to consumer choice for a durable purchase decision. Consumers choose an airconditioning alternative using up to ten decision waves, 40% of which may be outside our current decision models. This research suggests that most consumers do not construct a choice set to make a purchase decision, and this may have an impact on product positioning and differentiation decisions, as well as identifying the importance of being the &#8216;last alternative standing'. This research found three common pathways to consumer choice. Marketing tactics must address the informational requirements of each pathway for their product to become a candidate for selection.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brand trust as a second-order factor: an alternative measurement model]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88634</link>
<author>Fuan Li, Nan Zhou, Rajiv Kashyap and Zhilian Yang</author>
<description><![CDATA[Brand trust is conceptualised as a multidimensional construct of higher-level abstraction relative to its various dimensions. In previous research, brand trust has been treated exclusively as a first-order factor. This practice can lead to serious problems in scale development and model specification. We propose and test a reflective&#8211;formative model of brand trust. In this model, brand trust is specified as a second-order factor that is determined by first-order factors of competence and benevolence. A series of empirical studies were conducted to develop a multidimensional scale and test this alternative model. The results of confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation modelling lend support to our conceptualisation and the proposed measurement model.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Book review - Doing Anthropology In Consumer Research]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88635</link>
<author>Simon Haslam</author>
<description><![CDATA[A book review of Doing Anthropology In Consumer Research, by Patricia L. Sutherland and Rita M. Denny, Left Coast Press, 2007.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Book review - Get To The Top On Google]]></title>
<link>http://www.IJMR.com/articles/TOC.asp?ArticleID=88636</link>
<author>Jim Hamill and Alan Stevenson</author>
<description><![CDATA[A book review of Get To The Top On Google, by David Viney, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008.]]></description>
<pubDate>1 Nov 2008</pubDate>
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