Market Orientation and Product Orientation This is an important distinction. Most businesses would today describe themselves as being ‘market oriented’ or ‘market led’. This approach requires market research and market analysis to indicate present and future consumer demand. The consumer is put first – the business attempts to produce what consumers want rather than try to sell them a product they may not really want to buy. It has advantages‚ especially in fast-changing‚ volatile consumer markets
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www.ccsenet.org/ijms International Journal of Marketing Studies Vol. 4‚ No. 3; June 2012 The Effect of Alternative Market Orientation Strategies on Firm Performance Eric T. Micheels (Corresponding author) Assisstant Professor‚ Department of Bioresource Policy‚ Business & Economics University of Saskatchewan‚ Canada E-mail: etm550@mail.usask.ca Hamish Gow Professor of Agribusiness‚ College of Business‚ Massey University‚ New Zealand E-mail: h.r.gow@massey.ac.nz Received: February 6‚ 2012 doi:10
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Product Orientation to Solution Orientation: A Journey Most industrial goods manufacturers and other organizations operating in B2B markets currently face testing times owing to bad economic conditions. While the economic downturn threatens the growth of a lot of these B2B businesses‚ other factors have also emerged that have contributed to this situation of the “perfect storm”. Increased price competition from the traditional low-labour countries‚ increased product quality levels from these same
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make any difference. Likewise‚ in this paper a subject of being market orientation is being discussed. According to many experts and studies‚ there is no clear cut definition to Market Orientation. The reason is that the term is very broad and subjective due to its practices and sophisticated world of human. However‚ there are still basic criterions for such term. And such criterions are like being responsive to knowledge of the market‚ understanding of customers’ needs and wants‚ and more as discussed
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Heiens / Market Orientation Market Orientation: Toward an Integrated Framework Richard A. Heiens University of South Carolina Aiken Dr. Richard Heiens is Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of South Carolina Aiken‚ School of Business Administration‚ 471 University Parkway‚ Aiken‚ SC 29801. (803) 641-3238. RichardH@Aiken.SC.edu EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "Market orientation‚" may actually encompass several different approaches to the strategic alignment of the organization with the external
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instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjmm20 From market orientation to brand orientation in the public sector a Johan Gromark & Frans Melin a b Lund University‚ Sweden b Lund University‚ Sweden Published online: 02 Sep 2013. To cite this article: Johan Gromark & Frans Melin (2013) From market orientation to brand orientation in the public sector‚ Journal of Marketing Management‚ 29:9-10‚ 1099-1123‚ DOI: 10.1080/0267257X.2013
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The evolution of marketing concept is from production orientation to sales orientation‚ continuously it becomes market orientation and societal market orientation (Pride et al. 2007). So‚ the purpose of this essay is to discuss what market orientation is and whether market orientation is sufficient for business success in the business world. This essay has divided into three parts‚ which are introduction‚ body and conclusion. Market orientation is “an organisationwide commitment to researching and
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Outline the evolution of market orientation By the evolution of market orientation we understand that marketing has gone through since the Industrial Revolution until the present. We can divide this evolution in 4 different stages or eras‚ from the oldest to the newest: Production Era Product Era Sale Era Marketing Era There are loads of differences between the different eras but the main difference is the goal the businesses try to aim in each era. Through the History the aims and goals of
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Market-Orientation During the past decade‚ market orientation has received considerable attention from both academics and practitioners. This trend reflects both a long standing neglect of construct‚ (Webster‚1988‚ Kohli and Jaworski 1990) and a widespread acceptance of its importance (Houston‚ 1986‚ Webster‚1988‚ Kohli and Jaworski 1990). Building on the initial research by inter alia Kohli and Jaworski (1990)‚ Narver and Slater (1990) Deshpande et al (1993) significant progress has been made in
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eating market orientationCreating a Market Orientation JOHN C. NARVER* Professor‚ School of Business Administration‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ WA 98195 STANLEY F. SLATER Professor of Business Administration‚ University of Washington‚ Bothell‚ Bothell‚ WA 98021 BRIAN TIETJE Doctoral Student‚ School of Business Administration‚ University of Washington‚ Seattle‚ WA 98195 Abstract A market orientation is a business culture in which all employees are committed to the continuous
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