Research, Media and Society
Oriana Monarca WhiteCPM Research Brazil
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this paper is to show how marketing research, applied innovatively and interacting with companies, nongovernmental organisations, and the media, was able to spur the Brazilian society to modify its basic cultural values, thus becoming in itself an element of transformation.
The process here summarized is the result of a year of studies and endeavors. It was a process where large multinational companies such as IBM, NET Television, Avon, Faber Castle and Pepsi Cola, as well as domestic companies such as Editora Abril and Banco Ita,...