Competitive Intensity as a Moderator in Customer Orientation – Performance Relationship in Nigeria
Authors:
BINUYO Adekunle
Publication Type: Journal article
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Abstract
Customer orientation has been said to involve the analysis of customers’ needs, and responsiveness of
organization to such needs. Some researchers have raised the issues of the impact of environmental forces on
organizational performance, to establish this empirically, the study looks at the relationship between customer
orientation and firm performance of some randomly selected firms in the Nigerian economy. Structured
questionnaire were distributed to officers responsible for the strategic direction of the firms and the resultant
data was subjected to descriptive statistical analysis, analysis of variance, correlation and regression analysis.
The results obtained show that competitive intensity affect customer orientation -firm performance relationship.
The policy implication of this finding was also discussed and recommendations advanced.