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Law Enforcement Marketing: Perceptions Of A Police Force, Peter Bohan
Law Enforcement Marketing: Perceptions Of A Police Force, Peter Bohan
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This article examines the role and applicability of marketing in a public service organisation. It is argued that the changing external environment now facing many police agencies requires them to develop a marketing orientation if they are to continue to be effective. Obstacles to achieving this as well as the key factors that impinge on the public "image" of the police force are discussed. The authors then focus on a major study of the Dublin population's perception of its police force, the Garda Siochana, over a wide range of concerns. The research indicates that in general the Irish police force …
Preference Modelling: Conjoint Analysis And Multi-Attribute Models, John Walsh, Patrick Roe
Preference Modelling: Conjoint Analysis And Multi-Attribute Models, John Walsh, Patrick Roe
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While many multi-variate techniques have been applied frequently in Ireland, academics and practitioners alike have tended to shy away from incorporating conjoint analysis in their research. Conjoint analysis has been used extensively in other countries primarily to estimate consumers’ preferences for products whereas a less complex, easily applied technique, compositional multi-attribute modelling, has been used in Ireland for the same task. This study sets out to compare the powers of estimation or prediction of preference of both techniques. Unresolved areas in preference modelling, namely attribute order bias, learning effects and heterogeneity of preference structures, are addressed in an attempt to …
A Low-Involvement Choice Model For Consumer Panel Data, Cathal Brugha, Darach Turley
A Low-Involvement Choice Model For Consumer Panel Data, Cathal Brugha, Darach Turley
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The long overdue surge of interest in consumer behaviour texts in low-involvement purchasing has only begun to gather momemtum. It often takes the form of asking whether concepts usually associated with high-involvement purchasing can be applied, albeit in a modified form, to low-involvement purchasing. One such concept is evoked set, that is the range of brands deemed acceptable by a consumer in a particular product area. This has characteristically been associated with consumption involving extensive pre-purchase search and evaluation. The consumer's evoked set is thus the brands he would actually consider purchasing in advance of the purchase event. However, when …