in early 21st century, rapid and all- inclusive global change has transformed so much the working environment of organizations that the organizations and their managers are obliged to find new ways for their actions to adapt to global change and evolution, so that they can survive in the domestic and global competition arena. in fact, an organization will be successful that can achieve a sustai...

This paper calls for a merger of technology and marketing under a customer value perspective; for an enhancement of the traditional technological innovation orientation of the technology-based firm with a market thrust. It establishes technology-based products as product-service offerings that are derived from technological innovation. The aim in marketing technology-based products is an improv...

Knowledge plays a crucial role in determining a firm’s innovation capability and in enhancing working life quality of knowledge workers (Corso, Martini, Pelligrini, & Paolucci, 2002). Previous studies show that knowledge is managed in a different manner in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)—that knowledge is more likely to be created, shared, transferred and applied via people-based rathe...

The concepts of market orientation and innovation and their interrelationship with business success have been explored from a number of perspectives. However, research in this area has not explored the differences between start-up and mature companies. The research study acquired data from over two hundred Chief Operating Officers (CEO’s) and Managing Directors from both start-up and mature com...

he aim of this study is to explore the effects of market orientation, quality orientation and learning orientation on firm innovativeness and the mediating effect of the quality orientation in this relation. The research has been conducted via survey. The questionnaires have been send to send to 200 small and medium sized companies in Gebze and Istanbul and 130 responses has been received. The ...

A great research suggests that effective knowledge management can strengthen organizational performance. But empirical research is very scarce. The concept of knowledge management orientation based on knowledge and resource views presents the degree to which organizations implement knowledge management. This paper mainly analyzes the relationships among knowledge management orientation, organiz...

Factors that affect the level of innovation in projects to develop new service offerings are analyzed based on field research results from 84 service innovation projects. Personal characteristics of developers, process and customer type, and an important characteristic of their organization (i.e., whether or not they possess a strong Lean Six Sigma or similar process improvement orientation) ar...

This paper studies radical innovation and its internal managerial control modes from the perspective of entrepreneurial orientation; then proposes a conceptual model and theory hypotheses. On analyzing the effective sample data from 682 enterprises of different industries across 10 provinces and cities in China, we have confirmed the theoretical model. The results indicate that entrepreneurial ...

knowledge-based firms play a critical role in economics of developing countries. innovation and entrepreneurship are two important factors for sustainable development of these firms. corporate entrepreneurship and recognizing factors impacting them have become important in recent years. the purpose of this paper is to examine the relations between corporate entrepreneurship, market orientation ...