Sectorial evaluation and characterization of internal marketing orientation through multicriteria analysis

María M. Muñoz (), Sergey Kazakov () and Jose L. Ruiz-Alba ()
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María M. Muñoz: Universidad de Málaga
Sergey Kazakov: Universidad de Alcalá
Jose L. Ruiz-Alba: University of Westminster

Operational Research, 2024, vol. 24, issue 2, No 12, 19 pages

Abstract: Abstract This research carries out a comparative analysis of the Internal Market Orientation (IMO) to a sample of small and medium enterprise companies, which has been divided into nine groups based on their business sectors. Applying the statistical technique of structural equations, the coefficients of four IMO inputs in each business sector are obtained. Next, the PROMETHEE multicriteria technique is applied to obtain a composite indicator of the IMO implementation of each business sector. The value of the composite indicator together with the GAIA plane allow to distinguish the differences of the IMO profiles, their strengths and their weaknesses. The results show the divergences in the IMO inputs according to the sector, which is evidence that the business sector is a predictor of the IMO implementation of a company.

Keywords: Internal Market Orientation; Sectorial evaluation; Composite indicator; PROMETHEE; GAIA plane (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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