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Congruence of market orientation and organizational learning: Performance perspective
Ahmed, Farhan; Kitchlew, Naveda - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 12 (2018) 1, pp. 309-329
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between market orientation, organizational learning and organizational performance. The study follows quantitative research strategy and cross-sectional survey design to collect data from manufacturing firms operating in Pakistan....
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Market orientation, innovation, and firm performance: An analysis of Albanian firms
Prifti, Rezart; Alimehmeti, Genc - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 6 (2017) 8, pp. 1-19
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of market orientation as an outer source of innovation for … organizations in the context of Albania. We investigate the market orientation relation with innovation and firm performance by … analyzing a sample of 99 companies operating in Albania. The relationships and the impact of market orientation on innovation …
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Market orientation and performance of small and medium enterprises in Ghana: The mediating role of innovation
Bamfo, Bylon Abeeku; Kraa, Jerry Jay - In: Cogent Business & Management 6 (2019), pp. 1-16
mediating role of innovation. The study was conducted on a total of 500 SMEs out of which 391 responses were received … performance of SMEs in Ghana. Innovation partially mediates between customer orientation and performance. Innovation fully … mediates between inter-functional orientations and performance whereas innovation has no mediation between competitor …
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Linking market orientation and service relatedness to new service development: The case of Italian small accounting firms
Massaro, Maurizio; Rossi, Gina; Bagnoli, Carlo - In: The International Journal of Management Science and … (2015) 16, pp. 94-107
of literature has been recognized. Innovation in the service sector is characterized by distinctive features, and … literature on product innovation cannot be applied verbatim. Several studies have recognized the importance of Market Orientation … to support product innovation while less attention has been paid by the service industry. In addition, previous studies …
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Exploring market orientation, innovation, and financial performance in agricultural value chains in emerging economies
Prasad Adhikari, Rajendra; Miles, Morgan P.; Bonney, Laurie - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 3 (2018) 3, pp. 154-163
relationship between market orientation and innovation. The findings indicate that there is no significant relationship between … innovation, and there is a positive relationship between innovation and financial performance. The findings provide insight into … the relationships among market orientation, innovation, and performance in agricultural value chains in emerging economies. …
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Leveraging innovation knowledge management to create positional advantage in agricultural value chains
Prasad Adhikari, Rajendra; Miles, Morgan P.; Bonney, … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 4 (2019) 2, pp. 115-123
This study employs resource advantage theory to identify how beef cattle value chain actors' resources are translated into the positional advantage and how that then affects their financial performance in an emerging country context. The study tested was designed to understand if: (1) the...
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The effect of market orientation, learning orientation and innovativeness on firm performance: A research from Turkish logistics sector
Eris, Engin Deniz; Ozmen, Omur Neczan Timurcanday - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 77-108
As it is emphasized in marketing, management, and strategic management literature, market orientation, learning orientation, and innovativeness are regarded together as having a significant impact on a firm's performance. The objective of this study is to find out the interrelationships of these...
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A hidden source of innovation? Revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation
Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - 2022
' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. Our results show that the direct effects of initial VET on technological … innovation in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are on average quite weak. If at all, a training firm's initial VET … activities are associated with production innovation activities and not with process innovation. Larger effects can only be …
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Learning from foreign operation modes: The virtuous path for innovation
Villar, Cristina; Pla-Barber, José; Ghauri, Pervez N. - In: BRQ Business Research Quarterly 23 (2020) 2, pp. 159-171
organizational innovation as well as overall performance. Our results, which are derived from a sample of 132 SMEs active in … organizational innovation. …
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Setting the 'right' goal: Post M&A innovation performance and goal orientation
In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 21 (2020) 2, pp. 555-565
shares. We investigate how pharmaceutical firms use mergers and acquisitions to boost their innovation performance which has … successful in their innovation endeavours than firms with other goal orientation. Further, the firms' prior acquisition … experience appears to aid their innovation performance. However, we found that target size can affect the post …
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