profitability from implementation of these practices is generally assumed, yet empirical studies examining WCM practices and firm … profitability report mixed results. One reason suggested for the lack of reported improved firm performance is the deficiency of … profitability. The survey data provide empirical evidence that investments in WCM practices of JIT and TQM, coupled with the …

Prior literature documents the usefulness of the DuPont disaggregation for predicting firms future profitability …. However, there is a lack of research examining how earnings quality affects forecasts of profitability. This paper explores … whether different earnings quality factors moderate the accuracy of profitability forecasts. This study contributes to the …

Operating leverage increases profitability and reduces optimal financial leverage. Thus, operating leverage generates a … negative relation between profitability and financial leverage that is thought to be inconsistent with the trade-off theory …, but is commonly observed in the data. We demonstrate the effect of operating leverage on firms' profitability and …

This research aims to examine the influence of firm Growth, Investment Opportunity Set, Profitability, Business Risk … growth, Investment Opportunity Set, profitability and operating leverage of no significant impact on the capital structure of … testing using the t test and F test The results simultaneously, showed that the firm growth, Investment Opportunity Set (IOS …