Business Research Methods

Business Research Methods

Author: S Sreejesh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-07-31

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 3319005391

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Since research is best learned by doing, this book emphasizes a hands-on, do-it yourself approach. The readers have many opportunities to see how business researches affect and support management decision. The book used a case study approach for all the chapters with interactive videos. The book gave emphasis to quantitative data analysis using a software program, IBM SPSS 20.0. The data analysis chapters illustrate in detail each step in running the software programs. The software programs files are provided for all data sets: outputs, demonstration movies, and screen captures are on the Website. This book provides students most extensive help available to learn quantitative data analysis using SPSS. Thus, the authors prepared this textbook and all the additional materials to help the students to understand the functional principles of business research and how to apply them in real-life situations.


Developing a Market Orientation

Developing a Market Orientation

Author: Rohit Deshpande

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-04-13

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0761916938

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Market orientation is best defined as an organization-level culture, a set of shared values and beliefs about putting the customer first in business planning. This book demonstrates the importance of market orientation on organizational culture (the shared set of values for putting customers first), on strategy (the creation of superior value for a firm's customers), and on tactics (the set of cross-functional activities directed at creating and satisfying customers).


Innovation Orientation in Business Services

Innovation Orientation in Business Services

Author: Krzysztof Borodako

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1839109556

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This timely book proposes a new perspective on building innovation in companies providing business services. Implementing an innovation orientation paradigm based on six pillars – strategy, organisational culture, human resources, structure and process, marketing, and technology – it sets out a framework for achieving innovation through knowledge management.


Marketing Research

Marketing Research

Author: Daniel Nunan

Publisher: Pearson UK

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 1658

ISBN-13: 1292308761

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"Working as a marketing researcher remains an intellectually stimulating, creative and rewarding career. Marketing research is a huge and growing industry at the forefront of innovation in many sectors of the economy. However, few industries can have been presented with as many challenges and opportunities as those faced by marketing research due to the growing amounts of data generated by modern technology. Founded upon the enormously successful US edition, and building upon the previous five European editions, the sixth edition of this book seeks to maintain its position as the leading marketing research text, focused on the key challenges facing marketing research in a European context. As with previous editions, this aims to be comprehensive, authoritative and applied. As a result, the book covers all the topics in previous editions while including updates that reflect the changes and challenges that have impacted the marketing research sector since the fifth edition was published. This includes the ever shifting impact of new technologies, the growth of 'insight' and the shifting role of research ethics, for example, through considering the impact of GDPR. This edition has been significantly updated, with new content, updated cases studies and a major focus on the issues and methods generated by new technologies"--


Market Orientation in Food and Agriculture

Market Orientation in Food and Agriculture

Author: Klaus Günter Grunert

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1461313015

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In the fall of 1990, the Danish government started a comprehensive research pro gramme to improve the competitiveness of the Danish food sector: The Research and Development Programme in the Danish Food Sector (Det F!Ildevareteknologiske Forsk nings- og Udviklingsprogram, F0TEK). The programme was based on a combination of basic research to be carried out by universities and other research institutions, and a series of collaboration projects between researchers and food companies. The programme was originally designed as a technological research programme. However, in the planning phases of the research programme, the view that the development of new technologies and products may not be sufficient to improve competitiveness made some ground. A small comer of the overall research effort was therefore set aside for market-oriented research. This comer was filled by the research programme Market-based process and product innovation in the food sector (MAPP). MAPP was a joint research programme in which researchers from several Danish universities and business schools participated; it was coordinated by the Aarhus School of Business. MAPP set out to achieve a difficult task: to conduct high quality research on various aspects of the marketing of food products, to do so in cooperation with food companies, and to win under standing and recognition from the colleagues in the food technology departments.


Proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference

Proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference

Author: Fauziah Noordin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9811060533

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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference (ABRIC2016). Chapters in the book address the theme of Advancing Knowledge, Connecting the World, reflecting on the emerging issues in various business management fields and the interconnections of multiple disciplines for creating knowledge advancement. Papers were carefully reviewed and selected and grouped into four main themes: economic and finance, marketing and communications, management, and information technology in business. The book serves as a helpful resource for students and researchers of business management, especially in understanding issues and cases of business in emerging economies and markets.


Business Process Orientation

Business Process Orientation

Author: Kevin P. McCormack

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-01-24

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781420025569

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Business Process Orientation: Gaining the E-Business Competitive Advantage provides the "why" and the "how" for building the "horizontal" organization - an essential component of the "e" in e-commerce and business. This book shows you how to weave your business processes into hard-to-imitate strategic capabilities that distinguish you from your competition. The book explores the impact that well-defined and carefully integrated processes have on organizational performance. Using the results of extensive research conducted among consumer, business-to-business, and services-based companies, the authors demonstrate that adopting a business process orientation (BPO) has a positive impact on the organizational culture and business performance. The resulting process oriented e-corporation is now positioned as a necessity not only to thrive but also to survive. The old ways of conducting business are out: pushing costs and compromising quality in order to achieve the lowest possible price. The emerging paradigm focuses on the core processes. The hallmarks of a great business still include high customer relevance, internally consistent decisions about scope and value chain activities performed, value capture mechanisms, a source of differentiation and strategic control, a sound operational system, and carefully designed processes. Business Process Orientation: Gaining the E-Business Competitive Advantage shows you how to balance your functional and horizontal orientation to create and maintain a healthy organization.


Market Orientation

Market Orientation

Author: Dr Paul Custance

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-09-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1409458687

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Marketing orientation is both the key objective of most food producers and their biggest challenge. Connecting food and agricultural production with the changing needs and aspirations of the customer provides the means to ensure competitive advantage, resilience and added value in what you produce. But market orientation is not something that you can just buy in or bolt on to what you do. Market orientation is a matter of changing the culture of your organisation; finding ways of learning more about your customers and understanding their needs; changing your development and reward systems to educate your employees; it may also involve significant changes to your production processes. This comprehensive collection of original research explores the challenges and opportunities associated with market orientation along the food supply chain; from the animal feed industry to meat retailing and from organic foods to old world wines. All the chapters provide exceptional insight into understanding how market orientation can benefit food suppliers and how it is essential for long-term success.


ICIC 2020

ICIC 2020

Author: Bedjo Santoso

Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1631902776

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We are delighted to introduce the proceedings of the 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION (ICIC) 2020 bringing together researchers, academics, experts and professionals in examining selected theme on Islamic Perspective of Sustainable Development and The Role of Islamic Economics In Today's Global Finance. This event was held on 27 August 2020 virtually by Universitas Islam Sultan Agung in collaboration along with some Islamic universities in Indonesia and overseas. The papers published in this proceeding are from multidisciplinary researches related to economy, education, humanities, Islamic studies, laws, social sciences and health. Each contributed paper was refereed before being accepted for publication. The single-blind peer reviewed was used in the paper selection.


The Customer is NOT Always Right? Marketing Orientations in a Dynamic Business World

The Customer is NOT Always Right? Marketing Orientations in a Dynamic Business World

Author: Colin L. Campbell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-11

Total Pages: 987

ISBN-13: 3319500082

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This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2011 World Marketing Congress held in Reims, France with the theme The Customer is NOT Always Right? Marketing Orientations in a Dynamic Business World. The focus of the conference and the enclosed papers is on marketing thought and practices throughout the world. This volume resents papers on various topics including marketing management, marketing strategy, and consumer behavior. Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science.​