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Market orientation and industrial salesforce: diverse measure instruments

Francisco ToránEnrique BignéInés Küster

subject

MarketingMeasure (data warehouse)Empirical researchOrder (exchange)Market orientationContext (language use)BusinessBusiness and International ManagementMarketingReliability (statistics)Industrial organizationPhilosophical methodology

description

This paper supports the need for a market‐oriented industrial salesforce. So, in the first part, a definition of industrial salesforce market orientation is proposed, distinguishing between a philosophical approach and a behavioural approach. In the second part, an empirical research is carried out to propose and analyse diverse instruments to measure market orientation in an industrial salesforce context. Unidimensionality, reliability and validity are studied. The aim is to offer some guidelines to sales managers in order to implement market orientation at salesforce level.

https://doi.org/10.1108/08858620310458642