Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Modelling market orientation : a structural equation approach

MAP20070025750

Modelling market orientation : a structural equation approach / Nora Lado, Albert Maydeu-Olivares, Jaime Rivera Camino. — Madrid : Universidad Carlos III, Departamento de Economía de la Empresa, 1996

18 p. ; 30 cm . — (Working paper 96-34 : business economies series ; 07)

Sumario: Most researches have studied economic performance linked to market orientation, while a lesser interest has been shown in validating this construct's measure. The authors present a study of market orientation designed to obtain a valid measure of the market orientation construct. After presenting a theoretical model of market orientation, it is applied to investigate the usefulness of this construct in insurance companies of two European countries. Key features of the research methodology include several rounds of pretesting, multiple informant assessment, and a covariance structure procedure to show the structural validity of a measure of market orientation. the results show that the measure proposed is represented by a factorial structure that can be interpreted as an overall market orientation factor in both populations an a country specific additional factor

1. Empresas . 2. Empresas de seguros . 3. Orientación al mercado . 4. Estrategia empresarial . 5. Modelos econométricos . I. Maydeu-Olivares, Albert . II. Rivera Camino, Jaime . III. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía de la Empresa . IV. Working paper 96-34 : business economies series ; 07 . V. Título.