LooseLeaf for Essentials of Marketing Research, 4TH EDITION

By Joseph Hair, Jr. and Mary Celsi and Robert Bush and David Ortinau



Essentials of Marketing Research delivers a concise, up-to-date review of a broad variety of marketing research topics. Its application-oriented approach equips students with tools and skills necessary to solve business problems and maximize opportunities. The authors' years of practical market research experience is evidenced in everything from their thorough treatment of qualitative research (a topic often given short shrift) to their knowledgeable coverage of sample size rules-of-thumb, background literature reviews, and new market research tools and techniques including new coverage of structural modeling and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM).

Essentials of Marketing Research gives students a strong command of market research principles, while at the same time being concise enough for use alongside cases and other course projects.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1 The Role and Value of Marketing Research Information
1 Marketing Research for Managerial Decision Making
2 The Marketing Research Process and Proposals

Part 2 Designing the Marketing Research Project
3 Secondary Data, Literature Reviews, and Hypotheses
4 Exploratory and Observational Research Designs and Data Collection Approaches
5 Descriptive and Causal Research Designs

Part 3 Gathering and Collecting Accurate Data
6 Sampling: Theory and Methods
7 Measurement and Scaling
8 Designing the Questionnaire

Part 4 Data Preparation, Analysis, and Reporting the Results
9 Qualitative Data Analysis
10 Preparing Data for Quantitative Analysis
11 Basic Data Analysis for Quantitative Research
12 Examining Relationships in Quantitative Research
13 Communicating Marketing Research Findings