The Marketing Service Institute has a 38 years history of funding high-profile scholarly research on topics that have managerial significance. MSI's pioneering work on developing a market orientation' has only been available as a series of working papers, is now presented in book form for the first time by SAGE Publications. This book demonstrates the importance of market orientation on organizational culture ( the shared set of values in putting customer first), on strategy (creating superior value for a firm's customers), and on tactics (the set of cross-functional activities directed at creating an d satisfying customers)