This paper analysed the intermediary effect of market orientation as a variable that can change the business performance of some markets especially SMEs. Market orientation which plays a significant role in marketing and give rise to the organisation's competitive advantage and success and...

This study seeks to develop a dynamic theoretical framework for global competitiveness and to determine whether the enhancement of firm performance comes as a consequence of clustering at the location level, inter-organisational trust at the relationship level, or resource and knowledge...

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the role of managerial traits (need for achievement, tolerance for ambiguity, conformity, and individualism) in advancing market orientation and in turn business performance. The sample of the study consisted of 262 bank branch managers in...

This research investigates the effects of just-in-time selling (JITS) strategy on firms' performance. A structural model is proposed that consists of measures for JITS strategy, market orientation, transformational leadership, environment, and organisation performance. Data is collected from 117...

This paper explores the underlying dimensions of absorptive capacity and its impact on the performance for firms in Zambia and Mauritius. It first defines a firm's capacity to absorb spillovers as a latent variable observable indirectly through its underlying dimensions. By means of structural...

The aim of the present research was to investigate, via multi-group analyses, the dimensional structure of the CES-D (Radloff, 1977) across three age groups. For this, three studies were conducted on cross-sectional samples of French speaking respondents, varying in age and drawn from the Quebec...