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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING
Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Pages 245-266Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/03090561011008691
Keywords
Competitive strategy; Product differentiation; Costs; Market orientation; Resources
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Purpose - This study seeks to draw on the strategy implementation approach and the resource-based view of the firm (RB theory) to investigate the relationships among competitive strategies (i e differentiation and cost-leadership), responsive market orientation (RMO), proactive market orientation (PMO) and firm performance The purpose is to show that competitive strategies have a significant effect on market orientation and market orientation has a significant effect on firm performance Design/methodology/approach - The paper designed a mail-survey that was sent to senior executives, which resulted in 189 usable surveys Data were analysed using partial least squares (PLS) to test the hypotheses Findings - The findings show that both competitive strategies Influence RMO and PMO, which then influence firm performance However, the results Show that differentiation strategy has a stronger influence on RMO and PMO than cost-leadership strategy, and that PMO has a stronger influence on performance than RMO Research limitations/implications - The study examined one set of capabilities RMO and PMO research opportunities exist for identifying other firm capabilities (e g organisational learning) and their relationships with competitive strategies Practical implications - Strategy implementation is a valid route to firm performance. Therefore, marketing managers must simultaneously develop competitive strategies and RMO and PMO to obtain increased firm performance outcomes Originality/value - The study conceptualises market orientation as RMO and PMO, and suggests that this treatment of market orientation is important in understanding its role in the competitive strategies of firms and consequent firm performance
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