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Barriers to Increased Market-Oriented Activity: What the Literature Suggests

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Journal of Market-Focused Management

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Most research on market orientation has dealt with assessing how market orientation behaviour is related to business performance. This work has established an intense market-oriented activity as significantly and positively related to business performance under most circumstances. In a maturing field of research and practice the question on how to design programs for building market orientation is about to be answered. This branch looks deeper into the nature of market orientation and into designing and managing the increase of market orientation. However, the question on why marketing and related activities still seem to attract relatively few resources is not answered by supplying another checklist or package of facilitators. Based on published conceptual writings and empirical studies this article makes an account of what the intra-organizational barriers may be to increased market-oriented activity. A framework of six generic domains is suggested: Organizational structure, human resource management, market-oriented activity competence, psychological climate, managers' personality characteristics, and individually held beliefs. A model is suggested interrelating the domains.

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Bisp, S. Barriers to Increased Market-Oriented Activity: What the Literature Suggests. Journal of Market-Focused Management 4, 77–92 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009808112356

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