Answer:
Prior to the 1950s, the production orientation generally held true due to the growing numbers of affluent and middle class people that capitalism had created.
Say’s Law states that the “production of commodities creates, and is the one and universal cause which creates, a market for the commodities produced”.
The emphasis of firms adopting a production orientation of marketing would have been based on the theory of economies of scale, which are the cost advantages that an enterprise obtains due to expansion.