An Empirical Examination of Market Orientation in Saudi Arabian Manufacturing Companies

The author examines the applicability of Kohli and Jaworski (1990) and Jaworski and Kohli’s (1993) market orientation model in Saudi Arabia, a developing country market. To this end, a sample of 115 Saudi Arabian manufacturing companies have been investigated. The properties of the scales pertaining...

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Published in:Journal of business research 1998-09, Vol.43 (1), p.13-25
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