The majority of studies on market orientation claim compelling evidence exists that market orientation has a positive effect on business performance. This study takes a closer look at 51 studies which have addressed the relationship between market orientation and business performance between 1990 and 2002. The results show that there is no unequivocal evidence as to if and when market orientati...

This study developed a comprehensive measure of market orientation and examined the market orientation-performance relationship in the health care industry. A survey of 159 hospitals yielded a strong positive relationship between market orientation and various measures of organizational performance. Additionally, the study found that market turbulence, competitive hostility, and supplier power ...

The present paper examined following issues with respect to India's ICT sector; What has been the innovative strategy of firms under export orientation? Have the policy measures and the institutional interventions undertaken in the 1990's been instrumental in fostering an innovation based comparative advantage for the Indian ICT software and services industry? What have been the implications of...

this paper establishes new support for implementing outward oriented trade policies by relating industrial sector growth, trade policy orientation and export growth in 36 developing countries,including iran using a logistic growth function. based on thisstudy the use of stronglyoutward oriented policies towards export is likly relatedto a faster growth ofthe share of industrial output in gdp as...

This paper analyzes export subsidies (price incentives) and export quotas (quantity controls) in the Brander-Spencer (1985) model when policy makers have limited information on demand and cost structures. We examine necessary or sufficient information for policy makers to determine the right policies. It is crucial that they know the elasticity values of the slope of the inverse demand curve an...

This study considers potential influences of export marketing performance at the individual product-market level. Data were gathered via a mail survey of Thai exporters. The results indicate that ..... are significant determinants of export marketing performance.

This paper uses firm-level data to determine if there are systematic differences in the export and domestic prices charged by Taiwanese electronics producers. The analysis exploits new micro data that allow us to measure firm-level prices in both the domestic and export market for each of 30 disaggregated products in 1986 and 24 products in 1991. We find a substantial difference in the average ...

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