Designing an Impact Model of Market Orientation on the Productivity of Iranian Handmade Carpet Industry

Subject Areas : Business Management

Mehrdad Azadi ¹ , Seyyed Abbas Heidari ² , VahidReza Mirabi ³

1 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Business Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant professor, Department of Business Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associated professor, Department of Business Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-08-27 Accepted : 2021-12-19 Published : 2023-03-21

Keywords: Productivity, Market Orientation, handmade carpet industry,

Abstract :

Handmade carpet industry is one of the most powerful internal industries which could not repeat the success it had in the past years at a global scale despite its high potential. One of the reasons can be lack of attention to productivity and the related affecting factors. Therefore, in the current research, a model was presented to measure the impact of marketing on the productivity of carpet industry in Iran. The statistical population included two different parts of carpet industry experts (10 experts) and the managers at different levels of Iran National Carpet Center and the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade from among whom 203 ones were selected based on Cochran sampling formula. First, reviewing the theories and frameworks about market orientation and productivity and benefiting the views of handmade carpet industry experts, a preliminary model was extracted. Then, through continuously applying structural equation model in LISREL software environment, the extracted model was tested and finally, the impact of market orientation including customer orientation (customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and customer capital), market situation (rival orientation and market intelligence) and inter functional coordination (flexibility, knowledge sharing and cooperation) on productivity (including market effectiveness and market intensity) was proved. It was also found that the influence of customer orientation on productivity was more than other dimensions.

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