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This paper analyzes the relationship between a firm’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its profitability in Japanese … benefit determines the relationship between GHG emissions and profitability. Our empirical analysis focuses on ISO 14001 … to have a nonnegative net benefit, so that the positive relationship between their GHG emissions and profitability is …
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empirical evidence of the effect of granting trade credit on the profitability of small and medium-sized firms. We examine the … profitability implications of providing financing to customers for a sample of 11,337 Spanish manufacturing SMEs during the 2000 …–2007 period. This article also examines the differences in the profitability of trade credit according to financial, operational …
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A recent Australian Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper has estimated a 25 % decline in value added total factor productivity in Australian coal mining over the period 2000/2001–2006/2007. The decline coincides with a period of rapidly increasing global demand for, and price of, coal,...
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empirical question how it affects firm profitability. This short survey paper consolidates the empirical literature on the … association between working capital management and firm profitability. This state of the art analysis provides evidence of … positive effects of accounts receivable management and inventory management on profitability. However, results for the effects …
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productivity and profitability. This is interpreted as evidence that these workers transmit knowledge that can be readily copied …
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This paper analyzes the impact of capital on profitability and risk for Islamic and conventional Gulf Cooperation …. Second, higher-capitalized GCC banks (Islamic and conventional) are found to be more risky. Third, all profitability and risk … variables show persistence. Finally, we arrive at the same conclusions about the capital, profitability, and risk relationship …
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performance. In this paper, we explore the link between good governance and the profitability of individual firms in African … profitability, our evidence shows that an improvement of good governance in countries currently with low levels of governance … ratings has greater positive effects on the firm profitability than a similar improvement in countries with relatively higher …
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We investigate the strategies, HR attributes and their synergies that are associated with superior performance in service SMEs using data from the UK Tourism Hospitality and Leisure (THL) sector. A major advantage of our analysis is that our sample includes information also on very small firms...
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The aim of this study is to identify the internal determinants of profitability of Turkish banks in the period of 2002 … and international investors. Findings of the study indicate that capital efficiency and size affect profitability …
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