Abstract

Our study develops and tests a research model that investigates the impact of born-globals’ customer orientation on innovativeness through the mediating roles of technological capability, relationship quality, and relationship information process. Data obtained from 197 small and medium-sized born-global firms in Turkey were used to gauge these relationships through structural equation modelling. The results suggest that born-globals’ customer orientation influences innovativeness indirectly through the mediating role of technological capability. Simply put, technological capability acts as a full mediator between customer orientation and innovativeness. Contrary to our predictions, relationship quality and relationship information process do not significantly influence innovativeness. Therefore, the empirical data do not support the mediating roles of relationship quality and relationship information process. In short, our study contributes to current knowledge by examining the factors that influence the innovativeness of born-globals using data obtained from born-globals in Turkey, which is a newly industrialised country.

Details

Title
Investigating the impact of customer orientation on innovativeness: evidence from born-global firms in Turkey
Author
Karatepe, Osman M 1 ; Uner, M Mithat 2 ; Kocak, Akin 3 

 Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Tourism, Gazimagusa, TRNC, Turkey 
 Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Besevler, Turkey 
 Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Business Administration, Cebeci, Ankara, Turkey 
End page
734
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Dec 2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
ISSN
1331677X
e-ISSN
18489664
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2200892248
Copyright
© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.