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The interview is one of the fundamental data collection techniques for conducting qualitative consumer and marketing research.

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Nuttavuthisit, K. (2019). Interview. In: Qualitative Consumer and Marketing Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6142-5_5

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