Table 8 Items of managerial orientation scales and scale reliabilities Measurement scale Mean Std.
From this background, we develop a structural model of managerial orientation, innovation strategy, and firm performance to be applied to data from Ontario farms that market through direct and alternative channels (Fig. 1).
In contrast to the often techno-managerial orientation of literatures on socio-technical transitions, we explore the political terrain upon which competing visions of energy futures and material interests collide and seek to accommodate one another.
The ANs' perceptions that their supervisors did not understand the full scope of the demands they faced and even thought that they "don't do anything" reflect how the managerial control orientation influenced the ANs' experience of the interpersonal relationship.
While HPWS emphasizes internal managerial practices, entrepreneurial orientation is more about the attitude towards the outside.
Among the variables under a manager's control, innovation, advertising, market orientation, interorganizational networks, entrepreneurial orientation and managerial capacity serve as positive drivers of organic growth.
An exploratory study of market orientation in UK retail companies, grounded in case study research, adopts a novel survey design that compares managerial perceptions of market orientation with operational employee beliefs and attitudes.
In this study the orientation of managerial control predominated.
Thus, it would appear that promises of support such as continuing education, adequate orientation and managerial support, which acted as attractants to rural practice, did not materialize in the rural settings and contributed to attrition.
By the identification of already elaborated environmental innovation, we realized that one of the traditional managerial beliefs, stating that an orientation on sustainable development is undoubtedly a money-consuming activity requiring additional investments, did not hold true. Figure 2 illustrates an example of our assessment results.
