Abstract:Based on the organizational attention view, this paper analyzes the relationships among technology-customer orientations, organizational culture and performance, and then demonstrates whether firms can pursue simultaneously technology-customer orientations and which organizational culture should be constructed to improve performance in transitional economies. Using 209 manufacturing firms, this paper empirically examines the relationships among technology-customer orientations, organizational culture and performance. The results indicates that individual technology orientation or customer orientation can positively impact firms performance; simultaneous technology-customer orientations can negatively impact firms performance but organizational culture as one managerial mechanism can effectively improve the negative effects of technology-customer orientations on performance.