Literature and practice reveal that most marketing related questionnaires measuring consumer preferences rely on some kind of conjoint analysis. Recent studies show the analytic hierarchy process to be suitable for this task, too. This paper gives a comparison of the approaches and the results...

Within empirical preference measurement, conjoint analysis (CA) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) are common methods with CA dominating marketing research and practice and AHP becoming more and more relevant as a tool of decision analysis. Both methods mainly differ with respect to their...