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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818285603321

Autore

Walle Alf H

Titolo

Qualitative research in intelligence and marketing : the new strategic convergence / / Alf H. Walle III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Quorum Books, 2001

ISBN

1-4294-7643-5

1-56750-964-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/7

Soggetti

Business intelligence

Marketing research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- I. Parallels, Agendas, and Options -- 2. Competitive Intelligence as Qualitative Alternative -- 3. Marketing Research: Merging with Another Qualitative Tradition -- II. Competitive Intelligence and Cross-Disciplinary Tools -- 4. Justifying Qualitative Methods -- 5. The Qualitative Espionage Model -- 6. Competitive Intelligence, the Planning Process, and Marketing -- 7. The Process of Intelligence -- 8. The Qualitative Social Sciences and Competitive Intelligence -- 9. The Humanities and Competitive Intelligence -- 10. Culture at a Distance: A Lesson from World War II -- III. Operationalizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities -- 11. Competitive Intelligence at a Distance: Learning from World War II -- 12. The Qualitative Audit -- Epilogue: The 10 Percent Edge -- Appendix 1: The Use and Abuse of Warfare and Sports Analogies -- Appendix 2: The ''Care and Feeding'' of Humanists -- Index.