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Market research is an organized effort to gather information about target markets and customers. It involves understanding who they are and what they need. [1] It is an important component of business strategy [2] and a major factor in maintaining competitiveness.
Marketing research is the systematic gathering, recording, and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data about issues relating to marketing products and services. The goal is to identify and assess how changing elements of the marketing mix impacts customer behavior.
In contrast, marketing research relates to all research conducted within marketing. Market research is a subset of marketing research. [10] (Avoiding the word consumer, which shows up in both, [73] market research is about distribution, while marketing research encompasses distribution, advertising effectiveness, and salesforce effectiveness). [74]
Traditionally the two parameters used to categorize consumers were occupation and education of the chief wage earner (head) of the households. The SEC classification, created in 1988, was ratified by Market Research Society of India (MRSI), is used by most media researchers and brand managers to understand the Indian consuming class.
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Contingent valuation surveys were first proposed in theory by S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup (1947) as a method for eliciting market valuation of a non-market good.The first practical application of the technique was in 1963 when Robert K. Davis used surveys to estimate the value hunters and tourists placed on a particular wilderness area.
In applied business disciplines, such as in marketing, [7] fieldwork is a standard research method both for commercial purposes, like market research, [8] and academic research. For instance, researchers have used ethnography , netnography , and in-depth interviews within Consumer Culture Theory , a field that aims to understand the ...