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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Firm Profitability"”.
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Profiting From Globalization: Pro-Market Reforms, Firm Internationalization Strategy, and Firm Profitability In Developing Countries
… the relationship between pro-market reforms, firm internationalization strategy, and firm profitability in developing countries. I argue that pro-market reforms augment firm profitability because they increase the competitiveness of local markets, allowing firms to increase their market …
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Performance variations among strategic group members in the pharmaceutical industry : an examination of individual sustainable growth capabilities, 1995-1997
… between strategic group membership and firm profitability has been a central and controversial theme in the strategic management literature. The theoretical foundation for a direct link between strategic group membership and firm profitability has been the notion of mobility barriers. …
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Shadow banking, financial stability and economic performance: implications for regulation in emerging economies
… the impact of shadow banking activities on firm profitability in South Africa with the aim to establish whether South African firms benefit from shadow financial services or otherwise. Single equation cointegration methods and three measures of firm profitability were employed in the study. …
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The impact of customer-related strategies on shareholder value
… and sales, and almost no relationship with profitability. The 'customer perspective' of the balanced scorecard (BSC) suggests that measures of customer satisfaction might provide leading indicators with the ability to predict a firm's future financial performance; but empirical research has …
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An Empirical Study of National vs. Local Pricing under Multimarket Competition
… is generally considered beneficial to firm profitability. Firms can extract higher rents by varying prices across markets to match consumers' preferences. This paper empirically demonstrates, however, that a firm may instead prefer a national pricing policy that fixes prices across …
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Green gains: a case for South African-listed firms
… Social, and Governance (ESG) performance on firm value and profitability for firms listed on the South Africa Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2021, using data from Bloomberg. To mitigate possible endogeneity, we utilized the two-stage least squares (2SLS) regression model, using lagged ESG scores …
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The adoption of innovative wood processing technologies in the building products industry
… grade sector focus, and investment intensity on firm performance as measured by profitability surrogates and changes in relative market share. This survey collected direct measures of the proportion of 1987 production produced by respondent firms that used controlled distribution channels and …
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The effect of peer firms determining firm capital structure: evidence from manufacturing in Malaysia
… this study is to investigate the impact of peer firms’ financial policies (capital structure) on target firm financing behaviour (capital structure), and to empirically test whether non-linear relationship of profitability with capital structure and growth opportunities exists. In order to …
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The Many Types of Churn and Their Predictive Models
… that link each of the churn types to firm profitability is outlined. It is my hope that future churn research will adopt this empirical based approach. Chapter 2 specifically addresses the example of a customer character model as a determinant of customer auto loan churn among a unique …
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Fair Value Pension Accounting, Corporate Risk and Investment
… to the extant bterature on market efficiency and firm risk by analysing whether measures of systematic risk, financial risk and operational risk reflect the underlying risk of the pension scheme. Finally, the thesis contributes to the literature on internal capital markets and investment decisions …
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Insights from financial data - old and new
… approval announcements granted by NYSE listed firms. The second study uses an entirely new dataset of company filings from hedge fund management companies registered in the UK to investigate the true profitability of investment companies which manage hedge funds and to explain why it varies …
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The structural preconditions for maximizing FDI spillovers in Colombia : a sectoral impact analysis of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Industry output, labor payments, firm productivity, and the productive structure (1995-2009)
… corporations (MNCs) crowd out domestic firms in developing countries, or is foreign direct investment (FDI) complementary to domestic firm profitability, productivity, and employment? Empirical literature has identified diverse channels through which FDI facilitates aggregate spillovers …
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Essays on the effects of human capital, innovation and technology on economic performance
… performance of 3124 manufacturing and service firms based on rich longitudinal data that cover the years 2003–2010 inclusive. The data—which are drawn from Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP)—share many of the characteristics of the Community Innovation Survey (CIP) data but also have at least two …