An examination of firms’ strategic orientations, innovativeness and performance with large Korean companies

Purpose - This paper aims to provide an examination of firms’ strategic orientations, innovativeness and performance with large Korean companies. Design/methodology/approach - The authors investigated the impacts of firms’ major key strategic orientations (customer orientation [CO], competitor orien...

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Main Authors: Sohyoun Synthia Shin, Sungho Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Online Access:https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/APJIE-12-2016-005
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Summary:Purpose - This paper aims to provide an examination of firms’ strategic orientations, innovativeness and performance with large Korean companies. Design/methodology/approach - The authors investigated the impacts of firms’ major key strategic orientations (customer orientation [CO], competitor orientation [PO], technology orientation [TO] and internal/cost orientation [IO]) on firm innovativeness (INNO) and performance outcomes with large Korean companies. Findings - The results of the analysis showed that CO, PO and TO positively influence the innovativeness, which contributes to firm performance. Originality/value - The authors provide some managerial implications on the multiple roles of strategic orientations on firm INNO and performances, along with limitations of this study and future research directions.
ISSN:2071-1395
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