They need also to promote to employees the message that being
market-oriented in the firm's export operations can enhance
business performance. By reinforcing in staff the importance of
EMO behavior, there is greater chance that EMO activities will
filter throughout the organization and become accepted within
the norms and routines of the business (see Homburg &
Pflesser, 2000). The empirical evidence provides strong support
for this notion in both the export (Cadogan et al., 2001) and
non-export-specific literatures (e.g., Jaworski & Kohli, 1993;
Pulendran et al., 2000). Thus: