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By Dennis Herhausen

Dennis Herhausen examines how managers can effectively probe latent wishes and discover destiny wishes of shoppers, categorised as proactive patron orientation. to reply to this query, 3 phases of study are deployed: (1) An exploratory examine investigating various dimensions of proactive purchaser orientation, (2) a quantitative examine investigating outcomes, antecedents, and components that reasonable the consequences of proactive consumer orientation, and (3) a qualitative research investigating situation-specific tips about the way to elevate proactive patron orientation. total, a scientific switch technique is constructed to steer managers that objective to extend their company's proactive patron orientation.

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1007/978-3-8349-6891-3_2, © Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2011 14 Martin 2000). These requirements and attributes determine the way in which superior performance is achieved through distinctive resources that competitors are unable to reproduce (Bharadwaj, Varadarajan, and Fahy 1993; Hunt and Lambe 2000). However, strategic resources have only a potential value, and realizing this potential requires strategic actions (Ketchen et al. 2007). , Homburg et al. 2007; Hult et al.

2007). Apart from Li et al. (2008), all other authors miss to incorporate a measure for strategic action in their studies. 4. Missing Antecedents: None of the existing studies incorporate any antecedents for proactive customer orientation in their framework. Thus, it lacks insights of how managers may increase the proactive customer orientation of their firm. In conclusion there are many gaps in the existing research that limit the validity of the studies. Besides missing relationships to central constructs, they are also related to a too narrow understanding of proactive customer orientation.

2007). 2 Responsive and Proactive Market Orientation Grounded in the resource-based view, Kohli and Jaworski (1990) and Narver and Slater (1990) were among the first to articulate a theory of market orientation. They defined market orientation as "the organizationwide generation of market intelligence 15 pertaining to current and future customer needs, dissemination of the intelligence across departments, and organizationwide responsiveness to it" (Kohli and Jaworski 1990, p. 6), and customer orientation as "the sufficient understanding of one's target buyers to be able to create superior value for them continuously" (Narver and Slater 1990, p.

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