Pengaruh Orientasi Pasar dan Inovasi Produk Terhadap Kinerja Perusahaan Dengan Keunggulan Bersaing Sebagai Variabel Mediasi
Abstract
This research aimed to know how marketing orientation and product innovation influence
business performance and this relationship was also mediated by competitive advantage in
cigarette companies. This was a casual research with survey method. Samples used were 230
respondents of smokers in Solo Raya. 300 questionnaires were distributed. The sampling
method used was Nonprobability Sampling in purposive sampling technique with the criteria
of respondents were giving information of correspondent for both male and female who
smoke and in the age of more than 18 years old. The result showed that from five hypotheses
it had, three of them were accepted and the two others were rejected. The rejected hypotheses
were the relationship of market orientation and product innovation to business performance.
This also showed that market orientation and product innovation would influence the
business performance after they went through competitive advantage as a full mediation.