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Marketing orientation and financial dependence: the specific case of portuguese non-profit organisations

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Summary:It has been largely emphasised in the literature that a market orientation can provide important competitive advantages to organisations. However, for-profit organisations have so far been the focus of much of the market orientation research and less emphasis has been put on other organisational contexts, such as the non-profit sector. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to apply the construct of market orientation to the non-profit sector and to analyse the constraints that can be posed to an effective assimilation of this construct, namely the dependence of non-profit organisations on financial resources.
Main Authors:Macedo, Isabel Maria
Other Authors:Pinho, José Carlos M.
Subject:Non-profit organisations Market orientation Financial dependence
Year:2001
Country:Portugal
Document type:conference paper
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade do Minho
Language:English
Origin:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Summary:It has been largely emphasised in the literature that a market orientation can provide important competitive advantages to organisations. However, for-profit organisations have so far been the focus of much of the market orientation research and less emphasis has been put on other organisational contexts, such as the non-profit sector. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to apply the construct of market orientation to the non-profit sector and to analyse the constraints that can be posed to an effective assimilation of this construct, namely the dependence of non-profit organisations on financial resources.