Market orientation in social housing management

Market Orientation, Social Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Organizational Performance: The Mediating Role of Learning Orientation

One of the emerging research areas in the strategic orientation is how to transfer different orientations from the commercial sector to the non-profit sector. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the mediating effect of Learning Orientation on the Market Orientation, Social Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Organizational Performance in the non-profit sector. The data from more...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

The Housing Market in Ghana

Politeness Orientation in Social Hierarchies in Urdu

The present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of Urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. The researcher took politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. To observe politeness of Urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was used as an instrument to...

Challenges to Implementing Market Orientation in the Funds Management Industry

Market orientation has been extensively discussed in the literature however few studies have examined the challenges associated with adopting this orientation from both a firm and industry perspective. This study used depth interviews with senior marketing executives to examine the extent of market orientation in the funds management industry in Australia and the challenges associated with its ...