We explore interactions between an organization’s strategic position, economic performance, and vulnerability to ecological pressures. We posit that (1) high profitability buffers an organization from density-driven competitive pressure and (2) this effect is moderated by an organization’s strategic positioning choices. Our empirical tests, relying on longitudinal data from the U.S. for-hire tr...

in this paper, the cox proportional hazard model is used to answer several questions. in general, fourteen variables are applied in four groups: firm, industry, expenditure human resources specific characteristics as well. according to the previous literature in this field, the findings of this paper also show that the factors which affect life duration of firms are different between industries...

The main purpose of this study is to explore the impact working capital, sales growth, debt equity, and operating efficiency ratio on profitability processed food industry in Indonesia. measured through return equity (ROE). research a quantitative method by using secondary data for seventeen companies listed Bursa Efek Indonesia from 2013 until 2019.The shows:1) capital has significant positive...

This is part 1 of a 2-part paper on ethics and physician-industry relationships. Part 1 offers advice to individual physicians; part 2 gives recommendations to medical education providers and medical professional societies. Physicians and industry have a shared interest in advancing medical knowledge. Nonetheless, the primary ethic of the physician is to promote the patient's best interests, wh...

Despite the faltering economy, during which insurance companies might be expected to hunker down and concentrate on survival, profitable growth has nevertheless held steady as the industry’s polestar. In fact, Celent’s 2012 survey of the U.S. insurance industry found that increasing profitability is the key business goal identified by CIOs as the primary component of their strategic agenda over...

291 words) Over the past decade, several industries have considered Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to improve supply chain efficiency. In Japan, the national Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) initiated and sponsored a number of industry-wide RFID trials between 2003 and 2006. It selected the Japanese publishing industry, one of the largest publishing industries i...

Profitability (ROA) study of the Indian pharmaceutical industry has been studied under dynamic conditions to avoid endogeneity issues. Vector Error Correction Mode (VECM) results suggest short-run and long-run dependency profitability on working capital intensity, research & development physical intensity. Physical intensity exhibited a negative impact ROA. Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (...

Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitabilities. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital structure, investment and firm growth by a multi-input/multi-output Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)....