How do learning orientation and strategy yield innovativeness and superior firm performance?

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2014-06-01

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Dulger, M.
Alpay, G.
Yılmaz, Çetin
BODUR, MUZAFFER

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This paper attempts to shed light on the role of learning orientations of firms and their adoption of Porter's generic strategies on four dependent variables: Behavioral innovativeness, product innovativeness, technological innovativeness and, ultimately, firm performance. Hierarchical regressions were run with data from a random sample of 121 firms operating in Turkey. Findings indicate that internally-focused learning, market-focused learning and differentiation strategy have significant effects on the three innovativeness dimensions. When firm performance is included as the eventual outcome variable into the analysis, internally-focused learning, focus strategy and product innovativeness emerge as its main predictors. In fast-paced, highly unpredictable market environments, managers can make use of these findings to their benefit in terms of elevating their flans' innovativeness and performance levels.

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Innovativeness, Learning orientation, Strategy, Porter, Performance, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53261

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SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article

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M. Dulger, G. Alpay, Ç. Yılmaz, and M. BODUR, “How do learning orientation and strategy yield innovativeness and superior firm performance?,” SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, pp. 35–50, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53261.