Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on developing more precise accounting measures of marketand customer-level profitability. These efforts are aimed at helping prune unprofitable constituencies and targeting resources to more profitable segments. This paper demonstrates that even if perfected, such refined segment profitability measures may unwittingly neglect a latent cross-subsidiz...

Prior research has debated the relative importance of such factors as human capital, political capital and region in determining workers' earnings in reform-era urban China. This article argues that a main agent of social stratification in contemporary China continues to be the danwei, the work unit. Using data from a 1999 survey we conducted in three large Chinese cities, Wuhan, Shanghai and X...

5.1. Measurements of variables Dependent variable: firm performance Both accounting and market measures of firm performance are used to investigate the relationship between forms of shareholders and firm performance. The most common accounting profitability measure is return on assets. 23 Considering discretionary accounting measures that are the common critique for accounting data, core operat...

In this paper, we develop conjectures for understanding how information technology (IT) strategy and IT investments jointly influence profitability and the market value of the firm. We view IT strategy as an expression of the dominant strategic objective that the firm chooses to emphasize, which can be revenue expansion, cost reduction, or a dualemphasis in which both goals are pursued. Using d...

This paper investigates the impact of a digitally enabled outsourcing-on demand web-based services-as a way to build a firm’s supply management infrastructure. In contrast with traditional proprietary infrastructure maintained by firms, this new IT architecture, in the form of on demand supply management infrastructure, is characterized by plug-and-play, as a result of standardization, and the ...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect a firm’s size, asset growth, tangibility, and financial leverage on profitability for all listed corporate firms in Jordan using unbalanced panel data (time series cross-sectional) regression analysis sample 1,663 observations over period from 2011 2018. overall results show significant positive size growth profitability. However, tangibility p...

This study aims to examine the role of a firm's growth-committed dividend policy in mediating financial effectiveness on firm value. Profitability, which shows company, has an inconsistent effect company To mitigate this gap, it is proposed that committed growth as mediator for influence profitability For reason, sample consisting all manufacturing companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange 2010...

We develop an integrated model for consumption and purchase decisions in the Rental-by-Mail (RBM) business model, which features closed loop delivery and quota-based subscription pricing. The model captures two distinct types of consumer dynamics: short-term dynamics in consumption decisions, and long-term dynamics in purchase decisions. Applying this model to a unique panel data provided by an...

This paper utilizes unique survey data on labor union coverage at the firm level to examine union effects on the profitability of 705 U.S. companies during the 1970s. Market value and earnings are estimated to be about 10-15 percent lower in an average unionized company than in a nonunion company, following extensive control for firm and industry characteristics. Deleterious union effects on fi...