This paper investigates the degree of market orientation of participants in the fresh produce marketing channel in Zimbabwe and the extent to which it is influenced by environmental uncertainty. The results generally support previous research that has shown that market orientation is positively related to perceived environmental uncertainty. There was a generally high degree of market orientati...

Across a wide range of face perception tasks, observers show drastically worse performance when faces are oriented upside-down versus upright. However, the meaning of orientation must be established in relation to a particular frame of reference. In relation to which reference frame(s) does the face inversion effect occur? Here we describe a simple, novel method for investigating potentially in...

the aim of this study was to design the strategic orientations model of market, brand and entrepreneurship in the food industry in iran.  the organizational decisions are not formed  in a vacuum but in the economic and cultural environmental context of each country, they are much influenced by many different factors. this study is of applied type and was conducted in two stages. first after an ...

Spatial metaphors for affective valence are common in English, where up in space=happy/positive and down in space=sad/negative. Past research suggests that these metaphors have some measure of psychological reality: people are faster to respond to valenced words and faces when they are presented in metaphor-congruent regions of space. Here we explore whether the orientation of a stimulus – rath...

The primary focus of this chapter is to provide an overview of the evidence to date on the quantitative genetics of sexual orientation, including family and twin studies. The bulk of the available evidence suggests moderate heritability for male sexual orientation. Female sexual orientation has been studied much less extensively, but current studies are consistent with a genetic contribution fo...

the main goal followed throughout this research was an identification of the role of environmental variables in entrepreneurial orientation (eo) dimensions, implemented as a correlational research, and by an application of causal model. statistical sample of the study consisted of 1800 cooperative memberships for the selection of which one out of each six regional groups of provinces (as cluste...

Article history: Received 29 July 2005 Received in revised form 16 June 2006 Accepted 6 July 2006 Available online 27 October 2006 This article examines the role of industrial firms' market orientation as a moderator of the economic–ecologic conflict. Specifically, the authors consider the effect of industrial firms’ market orientation on perceptions of the environmental pressure exerted by sta...

in the past years, a lot of studies have been conducted with regard to the organizational entrepreneurial orientation area. the overall results of these research projects helped organizational entrepreneurs discover the importance of some aspects, such as risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness. these aspects influence capabilities like learning and innovativeness and quality and, finally...