This study suggests that companies from a sample in an industrialized region in northern Mexico are confident about their level of overall market orientation but that differences in their customer and competitor orientation exist. The authors test market orientation for its relationship to several other variables, such as company size, type of product, and use of a marketing plan, and they discuss the implications for marketing theory and practice.
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