Impact of Market Orientation on Competitiveness : Analysis of Internationalized Medium-sized and Large Enterprises

• Autorzy: Miklós Stocker , Lídia Várkonyi
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Objective: The objective of this article is to identify the impact of market orientation and its elements on company competitiveness of internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises present in Central Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the period of economic growth.
Research Design & Methods: Quantitative large sample statistical analysis was conducted on a sample of Hungarian internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises (n=119). Data was obtained by the survey method, the MKTOR scale was implemented in the survey and financial data was also included. The sample is representative for size, and the sample size is larger than required. Factor analysis was used to determine the components of market orientation, regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses, and Chi-square test was used to determine differences in the elements of customer orientation.
Findings: Market orientation influences the competitiveness of internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises present in Central Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Among the components of market orientation, competitor orientation had the most significant and most powerful impact on competitiveness and on market performance as well. Interfunctional coordination had significant impact on adaptivity and operationality. However, customer orientation did not have significant impact on either competitiveness or its elements because customer orientation became a threshold capability of the internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises present in Central Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
Implications & Recommendations: Executive managers of internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises should focus on competitor orientation if they wish to increase their competitiveness and market performance, while maintaining their companies' high level of customer orientation. If managers want to increase their companies' adaptivity and operationality, they should also focus on interfunctional coordination procedures.
Contribution & Value Added: The main contribution of the article is that customer orientation is a threshold capability of internationalized medium-sized and large enterprises. Moreover, we prove that market orientation and especially competitor orientation increases the competitiveness of internationalized mediumsized and large companies. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Competitiveness; Market orientation; Enterprises

PL

Konkurencyjność; Orientacja rynkowa; Przedsiębiorstwo

• Czasopismo: Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 10
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 81--95

Twórcy

autor

Miklós Stocker

• University of Budapest, Hungary

autor

Lídia Várkonyi

• University of Budapest, Hungary

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10.15678/EBER.2022.100106