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Effect of the business environment on market orientation and performance in an emerging country

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  • József Berács

    (Department of Marketing Corvinus University of Budapest and University of Pannonia)

  • Gábor Nagy

    (Department of Marketing Corvinus University of Budapest)

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In the paper the relationship between market orientation and performance, and the effect of the business environment on these two factors in an emerging economy, in Hungary, was investigated. In a research conducted at 572 firms we found that both market orientation and the business environment have an effect on business performance, albeit in a different manner. The three components of the market orientation construct (customer orientation, competitor orientation, interfunctional coordination) have a positive effect on performance. Contrary to that, environmental variables (technological turbulence, market turbulence, competitive intensity, buyer power etc.) proved to have a signficant impact only on the finance-based performance measures. The results provide unambiguous evidence that the environment has a strong effect on market orientation, indicating that the market orientation scale developed by Narver and Slater is a proper tool to describe the transitional processes in an emerging economy characterized by high turbulence.

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  • József Berács & Gábor Nagy, 2010. "Effect of the business environment on market orientation and performance in an emerging country," Tržište/Market, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, vol. 22(2), pages 243-254.
    • Handle: RePEc:zag:market:v:22:y:2010:i:2:p:243-254
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