“…Furthermore, Silveira- Martins et al (2014) add that managers with this orientation limit their scope to their organization's operations and do not tend to conduct research in search of new opportunities outside their areas. Working from this reasoning, the following hypothesis can be formulated for analysis: Working from the argument that differentiation should be seen as a strategy that drives company performance, as claimed by several researchers (Robinson and Pearce, 1988;Denton, 1999;Johannessen et al, 1999;Crossan and Apaydin, 2010;Dressler, 2013;Banker et al, 2014;Zancan, et al, 2014;Oyewobi et al, 2016;Bebber et al, 2016;Santos, 2017;Werlang et al, 2018), the following research hypothesis is raised:…”