Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

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The Role of Market Information Quality and Employee's Task Performance Linking Market Orientation to Firm Performance in SMEs

시장지향성이 기업성과를 창출하는 과정에서 시장정보품질과 종업원 업무성과의 역할: 중소기업을 중심으로

  • 홍성준 (순천향대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2018.04.23
  • Accepted : 2018.06.29
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

Although market orientation as the implementation of the marketing concept has long been a major subject in marketing, firms with market orientation do not necessarily come with high performance, showing mixed results in literature. There have been attempts to link market orientation-firm performance until recently with different mediators, but the appreciation on market orientation has been faded in practice. This study focuses on two possibilities for the causes of these problems. 1) Previous studies have overlooked the qualitative aspects of market orientation, 2) have focused on the performance at corporate level. To provide a generalized performance-generation framework, this study demonstrates the market information quality as a moderating variable and introduces the task performance of employees as a universal mediator between market orientation and the firm performance. As the result of this study, we confirmed the positive role of the market information quality and employees' task performance in market orientation-Firm Performance. The relationship between market orientation and employee's task performance becomes stronger when market information quality is high in value. We highlighted the performance generating mechanism of market orientation, regardless of context. This research provides new insights for marketing scholars and managers with regard to both activities and quality of market information and how market orientation affects individual and firm level performance.

많은 연구들이 시장지향성의 기업성과에 대한 긍정적인 영향력을 밝혀주고 있지만 최근까지도 시장지향성이 어떻게 기업성과를 창출할 것인지에 대한 논란은 지속되고 있다. 본 연구는 기존 연구들이 시장 지향적 행위의 질적 측면을 간과하고 있고, 시장지향성의 성과를 주로 기업수준의 성과에 초점을 맞추고 있을 뿐 아니라 산업이나 경영환경에 따라 지나치게 다양한 매개변수를 사용하고 있다는 한계점을 극복하고, 일반화된 성과 창출과정을 설명하고자 하였다. 시장지향성이 기업성과를 창출하기 위해서는 시장정보의 행위적 측면뿐만 아니라 시장정보의 품질이 전제되어야 하며, 개인수준에서 성과 창출이 매개되어야 조직 전체의 성과로 확산될 수 있다고 판단하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 시장지향성과 기업성과 사이에서 시장정보품질을 조절변수로, 종업원의 업무성과를 매개변수로 제시하였다. 이들 변수는 산업 차이나 대상에 관계없이 적용할 수 있다는 측면에서 시장지향성 연구의 보편성과 실무적 적용가능성을 확대했다는 의의가 있다고 할 것이다. 연구결과 시장지향성-기업성과 간의 관계에서 2가지 변수의 역할을 실증적으로 확인하였다. 본 연구의 시도는 학문적으로는 시장지향성을 양과 질이 균형 잡힌 개념으로 완성도를 높였을 뿐만 아니라, 중소기업 입장에서 성과창출에 대한 새로운 설명을 제시하였다는 의미가 있다. 실무적으로는 시장지향성을 적용하는 동기를 부여하고, 성과 창출과정을 쉽게 이해해 활용도를 개선해 줄 것으로 기대한다.

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