Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms

Abstract One of the strategic launch decisions is the order of market entry. Adoption of a suitable competitive strategy is dependent on firm's decision on market entry earlier or later than competitors. This research aims to analyze the relationship between order of market entry and firms’ str...

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Main Authors: rasoul ghollamzadeh, mahdi ghanavati
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Language:fas
Published: University of Isfahan 2011-12-01
Series:تحقیقات بازار یابی نوین
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Online Access:http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/nmrj/browse.php?a_code=A-10-206-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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description Abstract One of the strategic launch decisions is the order of market entry. Adoption of a suitable competitive strategy is dependent on firm's decision on market entry earlier or later than competitors. This research aims to analyze the relationship between order of market entry and firms’ strategic orientation. For this purpose, three strategies have been defined as cost leadership strategy, innovation differentiation strategy and marketing differentiation strategy. In this study, the essential question is whether firms use a different strategy based on their order of market entry? The proposed model has been examined on a sample of 102 manufacturing companies in the food industry using Structural Equation Modeling based on the methodology of Partial Least Squares (PLS). Findings indicate a direct influence of order of market entry on adopting a particular strategy by the firms, so that pioneer companies tend more to use differentiation strategy at two levels of marketing and innovation, while cost leadership is more common among followers.
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spelling doaj.art-0962cef65d2a48a3a4723d2911fac8ce2023-09-03T02:56:42ZfasUniversity of Isfahanتحقیقات بازار یابی نوین2228-77442011-12-01134762Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firmsrasoul ghollamzadeh0mahdi ghanavati1 Abstract One of the strategic launch decisions is the order of market entry. Adoption of a suitable competitive strategy is dependent on firm's decision on market entry earlier or later than competitors. This research aims to analyze the relationship between order of market entry and firms’ strategic orientation. For this purpose, three strategies have been defined as cost leadership strategy, innovation differentiation strategy and marketing differentiation strategy. In this study, the essential question is whether firms use a different strategy based on their order of market entry? The proposed model has been examined on a sample of 102 manufacturing companies in the food industry using Structural Equation Modeling based on the methodology of Partial Least Squares (PLS). Findings indicate a direct influence of order of market entry on adopting a particular strategy by the firms, so that pioneer companies tend more to use differentiation strategy at two levels of marketing and innovation, while cost leadership is more common among followers.http://uijs.ui.ac.ir/nmrj/browse.php?a_code=A-10-206-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1Keywords: Order of market entry Strategic orientation Cost leadership Marketing differentiation Innovation differentiation
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Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms
تحقیقات بازار یابی نوین
Keywords: Order of market entry
Strategic orientation
Cost leadership
Marketing differentiation
Innovation differentiation
title Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms
title_full Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms
title_fullStr Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms
title_full_unstemmed Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms
title_short Strategic Orientation and Order of Market Entry of Food Firms
title_sort strategic orientation and order of market entry of food firms
topic Keywords: Order of market entry
Strategic orientation
Cost leadership
Marketing differentiation
Innovation differentiation
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