We investigate the effect of exploitative and exploratory learning activities on ITO vendor profitability. We present a mixed-method strategy to iteratively inform our research with an unprecedented data set of both qualitative and quantitative data on projects of the ERP service vendor OMEGA. In this paper, we report on initial quantitative findings, which show that exploitative activities hav...

In this paper, we investigate the effects of four determinants of vendor profitability in enterprise resource planning (ERP) outsourcing projects under two contractual regimes: fixed price (FP) contracts and time and material (TM) contracts. We hypothesize that effect sizes are larger under FP contracts than under TM contracts. From a transaction cost economics perspective, we hypothesize that ...

S is concerned with sustained interfirm profitability differences. Observations of such sustained differences are often attributed to unobserved systematic a priori differences in firm characteristics. This paper shows that sustained interfirm profitability differences may be very likely even if there are no a priori differences among firms. As a result of the phenomenon of long leads in random...

Abstract As financial intermediaries, the commercial banks to a large extent depend on performance of their lending as critical source earning. Due increasing loan failures, share non-performing advances has increased substantially in recent years, thereby adversely impacting profitability. The paper examined NPAs and profitability relationship by estimating determinants 39 public sector privat...

According to the statistics of 2020, 150,000 tons almonds are produced in Turkey. When production amount total almond is examined according provinces, Mersin ranks first with 22,929 tons, Adıyaman second 15,470 while Muğla takes third place 9,955 production. It understood that there has been a great increase areas province recent years, and considering data for Turkey largest area 72,350 decare...