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Does debt affect profitability? : an empirical study of French trade sector
Kebewar, Mazen - 2013
This article aims to expand existing empirical knowledge on the impact of debt level on profitability of companies. We … 2006. By using the generalized method of moments (GMM), we show that the debt affects negatively the profitability, not … small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). -- Debt ; GMM ; Panel data ; Profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009739517
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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402128
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What Businesses Attract Unions? Unionization over the Life‐Cycle of U.S. Establishments
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016
explore where union activity is concentrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006702
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing and when? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides which ones to organize and when. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057220
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Product Repositioning by Merging Firms
Atalay, Enghin; Sorensen, Alan T.; Sullivan, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine merging firms' additions and removals of products for a sample of 66 mergers across a wide variety of consumer packaged goods markets. We find that mergers lead to a net reduction in the number of products offered by merging firms. Merging firms tend to both drop and add products at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287330
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What drives profitability in the Romanian ICT sector?
Belascu, Lucian; Dumitrescu, Dan Gabriel; Popoviciu, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 15, pp. 899-913
Identifying the major driving factors behind variations in profitability across firms is a question addressed by many … have shown that profitability variation across firms and industries, is the norm, rather the exception. The paper … investigates the factors underlying the profitability of Romanian companies in the ICT sector within the company …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939901
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Built to Last, Flip or Profit? Exploration-Exploitation and the Survival, Acquisition, and Profitability of Start-ups
Keyhani, Mohammad; Deutsch, Yuval; Madhok, Anoop; … - 2021
-exploitation continuum and profitability, survival and acquisition likelihood simultaneously, and investigate potential trade-offs between … exploration for the acquisition likelihood and survival likelihood of high-tech start-ups, and for the profitability of low and … medium tech start-ups, but the relationship is linearly negative for the profitability of high-tech start-ups and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243885
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An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Profit Margin Persistence and Firms’ Choice of Business Model : Evidence from the US Airline Industry
Collins, Denton; Chan, Leon; Román, Francisco J. - 2010
This paper examines the influence of a firm’s business model on the relative persistence of profit margins in the U.S. airline industry. The strategic management literature describes a firm’s business model as reflecting how that firm chooses to compete in the marketplace. Given this linkage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192219
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What Drives the Profitability of Japanese Multi-Business Corporations? A Variance Components Analysis
Ushijima, Tatsuo - 2011
, estimation results demonstrate that profitability is predominantly determined by business-level factors, not corporate-level ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127407