Knowledge about consumers' preferences is of utmost importance for many marketing decisions, but transactional data are frequently unavailable. Therefore, marketing researchers have developed ground-breaking methods that build upon stated preference data to measure consumers' preferences; these methods include self-explicated methods, ratingbased conjoint analysis, and choice-based conjoint analysis. This article describes DISE (Dynamic Intelligent Survey Engine), which aims to enhance research involving the measurement of consumer preferences. DISE is an extendable, web-based survey engine that supports the construction of technically sophisticated surveys and that limits the effort that researchers must invest to develop new preference methods. We discuss the overall architecture of DISE, discuss how to implement and include new data collection methods, and finally outline how these new methods can be employed in surveys, using an illustrative example. We conclude this article with an invitation to researchers to join in the development of DISE.
History
Chapter number
11
Pagination
225-243
ISBN-13
9783834937223
Language
eng
Publication classification
B1.1 Book chapter, B Book chapter
Copyright notice
2012, Gabler Verlag
Extent
28
Editor/Contributor(s)
Diamantopoulos A, Fritz W, Hildebrandt L
Publisher
Springer Gabler
Place of publication
Wiesbaden, Germany
Title of book
Quantitative marketing and marketing management: marketing models and methods in theory and practice