Given the focus on marketing research, the present paper combines both the academic and the practitioner perspectives to highlight several issues and emerging trends that will shape the role of marketing research in the new millennium. These include redefinition of marketing researcher, the ongoing nature of marketing research, qualitative research, Internet marketing research, and ethical issu...

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There are more than twenty widely used e-indexes which are used to measure ICT Adoption all over the world. It might be a problem to choose ones to analyze the ICT dynamics or to compare the levels of ICT development in different regions of the world. So first the most common eindexes were reviewed. Then the comparative analysis of the e-indexes structure has been done. The coherence of the e-i...

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Entry to home ownership (EHO) is one of the most significant steps that a household takes during household careers (1). It is not only an economic decision of households but also a social and cultural attitude towards housing. It has spatial repercussions within the urban arena as well. In the literature, the process of entry to home ownership has been studied numerous times (Fejitsen and Mulde...

Evaluation is essential for research quality and development, but the diversity of traditions that characterize qualitative research suggests that general checklists or shared criteria for evaluation are problematic. We propose an approach to research evaluation that encourages reflexive dialogue through use of an evaluation agenda. In proposing an evaluation agenda we shift attention from rule...

Several authors have introduced global aggregation operators as families of aggregation operators {Tn}n, being each one of these Tn the n-ary operator in charge of aggregation, if and only if the number of items being actually aggregated is n. But according to this general definition, it is clear that operators within the same family may be not related at all. In this paper we shall point out t...

BACKGROUND Patient safety culture emerges from the shared assumptions, values and norms of members of a health care organization, unit, team or other group with regard to practices that directly or indirectly influence patient safety. It has been argued that organizational culture is an amalgamation of many cultures, and that subcultures should be studied to develop a deeper understanding of an...