This study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. Building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. A total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the Iranian food industry SMEs. The results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

the study of entrepreneurial orientation concept and codifying a proper strategy to improve the performance of companies has a great importance as the companies have allocated more product market share to themselves by representing new and unique products according to customers’ requirements. the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation and competitive strat...

Recent research on market orientation and close customer relationships addresses how firms create market intelligence and adapt to their environments. However, our understanding of market-oriented firms is incomplete because it does not fully incorporate with cultural linkages and collaboration in buyer-seller relationships. Actually, it has been neither investigated nor understood well the int...

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 com...

This study aims to investigate the casual relationship among nurses' self-leadership, organizational culture, and emotional labor. A survey was conducted on 440 nurses working for general hospitals in South Korea from November 22 through December 15, 2012, and this study analyzed the data from the questionnaire with SPSS Windows 18.0 and AMOS 16.0. First, selfleadership had a direct effect on t...

the aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of moral orientation questionnaire in the student athletes. the statistical population consisted of physical education students of mashhad ferdowsi university (n=450). 186 subjects were selected randomly as the sample. 14-item moral orientation questionnaire (miltiadis, 2010) was used which included 2 factors (deontological eth...

Using survey data, this research identified the relationship between technology orientation (manufacturing flexibility and advance manufacturing technology), and customer orientation (customer focus and customer satisfaction) to development of manufacturing strategy. This framework is then tested on a sample of 52 firms in plastics injection industry, Taipei County, Taiwan. The results show sig...