-gestational payoffs associated with many of today’s investments. We use a new measure of economic profitability, the internal rate of …

The research aimed to identify changes in the level of liquidity and profitability of meat industry enterprises and … determine the relationship between liquidity and profitability in this industry. The authors made a hypothesis that there is a … positive relationship between the liquidity and profitability of meat enterprises, which means that along with the increase in …

. A 1996 review of the evidence, summarized in this paper, found that competitor-oriented objectives reduced profitability …

This article analyzes persistence and the drivers of profitability in US and EU food processing using GMM estimations … sectors. Firm-specific drivers of profitability are size, growth and financial risk. Regarding industry characteristics the … growth rate significantly influences profitability. The findings provide insights for the management of food processing firms …

We examine determinants of audit engagement profitability using proprietary data from the national office of a Big 4 … the primary measure used to assess engagement level profitability, and use the former to proxy for engagement … profitability in our archival analysis. We find that engagement profitability is positively associated with the firm's assignment of …

Do information technology (IT) investments improve firm profitability? If so, is this effect because such investments … profitability compare with that of advertising and research and development (R&D)? These are important questions because investments … positive impact on profitability. Importantly, the effect of IT investments on sales and profitability is higher than that of …

We extend agency theory to propose that structural reform positively impacts firm profitability in developing countries … differently. Hence, we propose that structural reform results in higher improvements in profitability for domestic state-owned and …