%0 Journal Article
%T Market-Scanning Capability - A Scale to Measure FirmsĄŻ Ability to Sense or Respond to the Changes in the Marketplace
%A M.Shahedul Alam
%A Paul G. Guild
%A Douglas Sparkes
%J International Journal of Business and Management
%D 2013
%I 
%R 10.5539/ijbm.v8n4p10
%X A new construct called market-scanning capability has been conceptualized that captures firmsĄŻ capability to sense or to respond to the changes in the marketplace. The second-order reflective construct was found to have four first-order components that are named as CustInfo (i.e., collection of information about customers), CmpInfo (i.e., information regarding competitiveness), MktResp (i.e., responsiveness to collected market-related information) and Coord (i.e., coordination among different business units of the firm). The first-order components of market-scanning capability construct provide a theoretical understanding useful to the practitioners who want to design the business processes to revamp the market-scanning capability of their organizations.
%U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijbm/article/view/20144