profitability in Singapore and Hong Kong before, during and after the global financial crisis. This paper uses the two-step system … Generalized Method of Moments to examine the impact of macroeconomic and firm-specific factors on corporate profitability. The … model includes firm-specific factors (firm size, leverage, liquidity, sales growth and previous year's profitability) and …

-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 …

Previous studies of the impact of M&A on performance have employed a range of measures of “profitability” or “rate of … to shareholders. We discuss the profit margin, the return on net assets, the return on equity, earnings per share, and …

profitability and solvency. Using cross-sectional data covering over 25,000 firms worldwide and by employing various empirical …

profitability between founder/shareholder-CEO-led and professional-CEO-led companies. Based on the revenue and profit data for the 5 …

affects overall consumer charges and firms' profit. In a theoretical model, well suited for econometric implementation, we … impact on retail prices and firms' profit. We use a panel data set from saturated European markets and find that an identical … change in MTRs does not have a significant impact on firms' profit …

three fundamental goals of business: growth, profitability, and safety. Insurers balance on premium and underwriting … simultaneous equation models, we show that moderate firm growth increases profitability; however, extremely high growth reduces … profitability. In addition, less profitable insurers are more willing to take risks. Our results emphasize the need to jointly …

and its performance. This study argues that it is more appropriate to measure firm performance using profit efficiency … impact of corporate reputation on profit efficiency. Finally, implications of the aforementioned focal points are discussed. …

We investigate whether ownership concentration influences bank profitability in a developing country context. We focus …