customer activity has received more attention due to the increase of social network applications. moreover, customer activity could be an answer to the research debate about the significant relationship between retention rate and lifetime profitability of customers. several researchers believe that an increase in the retention rate of customers may enhance their customer lifetime value (clv), o...

V.Hanitha University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka Email: [email protected] Abstract This paper aims to investigate whether factors such as capital structure, working capital, firm size, non-debt tax shield and growth rate, determining profitability have any impact on profitability of selected manufacturing companies listed on Colombo stock exchange, Sri Lanka over a period of five years fro...

The topic of Customer profitability is a focal concern for telecommunication sector who seeks to identify its antecedents and causal structure with the aim of better understanding managing customer profitability. For this reason, Customer expansion processes and “Knowledge from Customer” is widely used in this competitive environment to achieve Customer profitability. The purpose of this paper ...

Foraging theory (Krebs et al. 1983; Stephens and Krebs 1986) assumes a simple hierarchy of feeding decisions. It supposes that foragers first choose among habitats, then choose among patches within habitats, and finally choose among prey items within patches. These three decisions have usually been studied independently. In this paper we begin to integrate these problems by considering diet cho...

We conducted an empirical analysis of the dynamic relationship between growth and profitability for smalland medium-sized construction companies that faced long-term economic stagnation in Korea. The period of the analysis spanned 2000 to 2014, and the full period was divided into two halves: before the 2008 global financial crisis and after it. Our empirical model was based on the system gener...

The number of lambs sold per ewe mated in the breeding flock has a considerable impact on sheep operation profitability. This depends primarily on fertility, prolificacy (# of lambs), and lamb survival, mothering ability, milk production of the ewe and lamb growth rate. Optimal reproduction does vary by environment and management system – some sheep operations don’t want a lambing rate over 200...