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MKTG2017 – Qualitative Insights

2020 – Session 1, Weekday attendance, North Ryde

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General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit Convenor
Cynthia Webster
cynthia.webster@mq.edu.au
Contact via cynthia.webster@mq.edu.au
158C 3 Management Dr
Mondays 12-1pm
Oliver Manlutac
oliver.manlutac@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
MKTG101 or MKTG1001
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

Qualitative insights provide organisations with an in-depth perspective of emerging market trends and novel consumer behaviours. Organisations use qualitative insights to better engage and deliver value to their customers, identify new opportunities and fuel their competitive advantage.
This unit equips students with knowledge of the role, theory and methods used in qualitative research. Students will develop skills in qualitative research design, data collection and analysis, including the use of different software packages. Students will also learn how to interpret and translate results to deliver strategic insights, and effectively deliver their findings through both oral and written communication.

Important Academic Dates

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Apply qualitative research skills and analytic techniques to derive marketing and consumer insights.
  • ULO2: Critically evaluate qualitative approaches, theories and techniques in deriving research insights.
  • ULO3: Demonstrate sustainable thinking to create coherent and theoretically rigorous arguments to address marketing problems.

Assessment Tasks

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General Assessment Information

Late assessment submissions must also be submitted through the appropriate submission link in iLearn. No extensions will be granted unless an application for Special Consideration is made and approved. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. Late submissions will not be accepted after solutions have been discussed and/or made available.

Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.

Delivery and Resources

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Delivery and Resources:

Lectures, seminars and computer laboratories:

  • This unit consists of 3 hours face-to-face teaching per session, one 1 hour lecture and one 2 hour seminar or computer laboratory.
  • The timetable for classes can be found on the University website at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Required Textbook

  • Belk, R. Fischer, E. and Kozinets, R.V. 2013. Qualitative Consumer and Marketing Research. 1st edition, Sage. ISBN: 978-0857027672

Additional Recommended Textbook:

  • Mariampolski, H. 2001 Qualitative Market Research. 1st edition, Sage. ISBN: 97807619457    

 

Required Video (students are required to view the following videography)

  • Kleppe, I. and Caldwell, M. 2011. Walking the Talk, Talking the Walk: Embodied Health Activism in Developing Nations, in E - European Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 9, eds. A. Bradshaw, C. Hackley and P. Maclaran, Duluth, MN: Association for Consumer Research, pp. 310-315.  Video link: https://vimeo.com/15311998

Additional Recommended Videos:

  • Veer, E. 2014. I’m Struggling: Men’s Stories of Mental Illness, in NA - Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 42, eds. J. Cotte and S. Wood, Duluth, MN: Association for Consumer Research, pp. 758-758.  Video link: https://vimeo.com/92599682  Password: ACRBaltimore
  • O’Rourke, G. and O’Sullivan, S. R. 2016. Wonders of Waste: The Ideological Diffusion of the Upcycling Movement, in E - European Advances in Consumer Research, Vol. 44, Duluth, MN: Association for Consumer Research. Video link: https://vimeo.com/170595105

 

Required Journal Articles (students are required to read the following journal articles)

  • Caruana, R., Glozer, S. and Eckhardt, G.M., 2019. ‘Alternative Hedonism’: Exploring the Role of Pleasure in Moral Markets. Journal of Business Ethics, pp.1-16.
  • Gollnhofer, J.F., Weijo, H.A. and Schouten, J.W., 2019. Consumer Movements and Value Regimes: Fighting Food Waste in Germany by Building Alternative Object Pathways. Journal of Consumer Research. In press.
  • Koll, O., Von Wallpach, S. and Kreuzer, M., 2010. Multi‐method research on consumer–brand associations: Comparing free associations, storytelling, and collages. Psychology & Marketing, 27(6), pp.584-602.
  • Longo, C., Shankar, A. and Nuttall, P., 2019. “It’s Not Easy Living a Sustainable Lifestyle”: How Greater Knowledge Leads to Dilemmas, Tensions and Paralysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 154(3), pp.759-779.

Additional Recommended Journal Articles:

  • Arsel, Z., 2017. Asking questions with reflexive focus: A tutorial on designing and conducting interviews. Journal of Consumer Research, 44(4), pp.939-948.
  • Belk, R.W., Caldwell, M., Devinney, T.M., Eckhardt, G.M., Henry, P., Kozinets, R. and Plakoyiannaki, E., 2018. Envisioning consumers: how videography can contribute to marketing knowledge. Journal of Marketing Management, 34(5-6), pp.432-458.
  • Humphreys, A. and Carpenter, G.S., 2018. Status games: Market driving through social influence in the US wine industry. Journal of Marketing, 82(5), pp.141-159.
  • Kozinets, R.V., 2002. The field behind the screen: Using netnography for marketing research in online communities. Journal of Marketing Research, 39(1), pp.61-72.
  • Spiggle, S., 1994. Analysis and interpretation of qualitative data in consumer research. Journal of Consumer Research, 21(3), pp.491-503.
  • Thompson, C.J., 1997. Interpreting consumers: A hermeneutical framework for deriving marketing insights from the texts of consumers’ consumption stories. Journal of Marketing Research, 34(4), pp.438-455.

 

Technology Used and Required:

  • Students will need to have access to a personal computer, with access to the Internet and word processor software.
  • In laboratories, we will use MS-Word, MS-Excel, NVivo, FocusGroupIt, Adobe Spark Video

 

Unit Schedule

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