firms which grow without first securing high levels of profitability tend to be less successful compared to firms that first … secure high profitability at low growth. Empirical tests using two large, longitudinal data sets confirm that the profitable … low growth firms are both more likely to reach the desirable state of high growth and high profitability and have a …

– 2000. Profitability was selected as a measure of competitive performance and costs of production, value of output and … consistently higher then competing countries Denmark, Germany and Italy. In terms of profitability, the opportunity cost of owned …

equilibrium model. The results suggest these new trade alliances would cause an increase in MERCOSUL agribusiness production and a … agribusiness exports. Economic growth for the MERCOSUL countries increases only in the MERCOEURO scenarios. The elimination of …