Market Orientation and Innovators’ Success: an Exploration of the Influence of Customer and Competitor Orientation

Michael Lewrick, Maktoba Omar, Robert L. Williams Jr.

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    Abstract

    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 companies. The results illustrate the differences in both types of company and reveals new insights with regard to market orientation and its constituent elements and its relationship with both incremental and radical innovations. Key research results are that strong competitor orientation, a key ingredient of market orientation, has positive relationship to incremental innovation for start-up companies but it is contra productive for mature companies. In mature organizations a strong customer orientation is associated with radical innovation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)48-61
    Number of pages13
    JournalAsian Journal of Technology Innovation
    Volume6
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Keywords

    • Innovation
    • Market Orientation
    • Customer Orientation
    • Competitor Orientation

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