This study was carried out to investigate how financial literacy and entrepreneurial traits determine the profitability … of SMEs in Ogun State, Nigeria. It is used a descriptive survey to obtain a structured description of the population and … understand the impact of financial literacy and entrepreneurial traits on SME profitability in Ogun State. The sample consists of …

this study, we examine the impact of new firm entry on the persistence of profitability in manufacturing industries. Using … an empirical model of profitability persistence developed by Waring (1996) we find a significant negative effect of new … firm entry on the persistence of profitability within manufacturing …

businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple … while moderately risk tolerant entrepreneurs survive more often. Second, the high risk-low profit part of the U …-shaped relation seems to disappear among businesses being four years and older, indicating that such inferior risk-profit combinations …

entrepreneurial reward (remuneration) and uses it as a variable in order to estimate its effect on bank profitability (in the … profitability. Each country is regarded as a commercial banking sector. All variables of the model refer to an annual average …