Research methodologies in China - Past, present, and future

This article reviews the history, growth and present status of market research in China. Face-to-face interviewing, initially popular, has suffered, as in the West, from rapidly falling response rates and sample bias.

Research methodologies in China: Past, present, and future

R. Susan EllisMelbourne Business School, Australia

Brian FineThe Online Research Unit (ORU), Australia

Daisy XuSynovate, China

CHINA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

China is the big, looming dragon sitting on every chief executive's desk. Whether a company is thinking of accessing China's market, or its low-cost production base, or investing in China's fast developing economy, no company can afford not to think about China.” Christopher Wright, Austrade Senior Trade Commissioner for Shanghai, as quoted on Austrade's China homepage (2008)

The world has witnessed China, with the largest population...

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