conclude that neither commercial competition, nor profit expectations, nor the monetary system are stand-alone growth … systematic necessity to net invest due to the interplay of creative destruction, profit maximization, and the need to limit …

-reported subjective profit evaluations of managers as the dependent variable. I additionally use objective measures to check the validity … objective measures contradict previous results. With the objective measures, the works council effect on profit further … collective bargaining agreement. Further results indicate that the subjective profit measure is a poor measure of actual profits …

will bring on a path to sustainability. That is true for economic targets (high profit, high competitiveness, low …

has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being male, and firm size are all positively related to profit, while young …

words for profit have changed during the transformation after 1989. In the socialist period capitalist profit maximization … is stereotypically damned whereas socialist profit remains rather an internal matter of the enterprises. In the 1990ies … both the profits of particular enterprises and the general notion of profit become a public matter. In specialized and …

relationship to size requires untangling cost and profit from decisions about risk versus expected-return because both cost and … profit are functions of endogenous risk-taking. This chapter gives an overview of two general empirical approaches to …