Market orientation and performance of export ventures: the process through marketing capabilities and competitive advantages

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Abstract

Our study focuses on the  internal process  through which market orientation influences performance in export markets, and develops a model of market orientation–marketing capabilities–competitive advantages–performance relationships. Using survey data of 491 export ventures based in China, we find that marketing capabilities mediate the market orientation–performance relationship, while competitive advantages partially mediate the marketing capabilities–performance relationship. Moreover, coordination mechanism strengthens, and cost leadership strategy weakens, the effects of market orientation on new product development and marketing communication capabilities, respectively. Market turbulence attenuates the effect of market orientation on new product development capability while competitive intensity strengthens this effect.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Volume39
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2011

Keywords

  • Market orientation
  • marketing capabilities
  • competitive advantages
  • performance
  • export ventures

Disciplines

  • Business
  • Marketing

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