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    The Effects of Relationship Orientation through Innovation Orientation on Firm Performance: An Empirical Study on Turkish Family-Owned Firms
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2011) Zehir, Cemal; Altindag, Erkut; Acar, A. Zafer
    In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the strategic management process is to achieve the performance outcomes that allow firms, including family-influenced firms, to be competitive over time. The fast pace of change in competitive market environments might be adduced as evidence for this view. This new concept requires new strategic alternatives for the family-owned companies. Successful family firms need to establish a board devoted to strategic business issues [1], [2]. A few of studies have demonstrated effects of innovation or relationship orientation on innovation-driven organizational performance in Turkey. The purpose of this paper is determine and report the results of a research study aimed of providing an overview including the key dimensions of performing two strategic orientations of family owned business enterprises and hope to bring new outputs into strategic orientation literature to fill this gap in the field of the study in Turkey.
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    STRATEGIC ORIENTATIONS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE IN TURKISH FAMILY OWNED FIRMS
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2011) Altindag, Erkut; Zehir, Cemal; Acar, A. Zafer
    In this day and age, family based companies need more flexible and faster organization structures to respond effectively to the customers' growing various type of needs in the dynamic markets. Family owned firms use more strategic tools to increase their firm performance. These tools include some strategic orientations as customer, innovation, entrepreneurship, and learning orientations. This new concept requires new strategic alternatives for the companies. This study tries to explore the relationship between effects of strategic orientations levels on firm performance and the family firms in Turkey. As total of 280 questionnaires are collected from the managers whom have key roles in the organizational structure in different scaled family owned firms. After the findings are examined by data reliability and exploring factor analyses, regression analyses are used for evaluating the relations between the dimensions. Consequently, it is presented the positive effects of strategic orientations on the qualitative and quantitative performance of family firms. In the conclusion section, various suggestions are offered for academicians and managers.