This study was carried out to examine how relationship marketing servers as a tool for profitability in banking industry Nigeria. investigated ten (10) commercial licensed banks which were chosen at random from different locations Lagos State: Zenith Bank, First United Bank Africa plc, Access Diamond, Sterling Heritage Polaris Wema Guarantee Trust and city monumental plc. The employed primary d...

Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability? We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level data for the electronics sector in Ireland. A particular feature of the data is that it records detailed information for 12 electronics sub-sectors covering both manufacturing ...

Introduction: Sports and war metaphors abound in business today. For example, one management book, Thunder in the Sky, by Thomas Cleary, opens with a Chinese saying that translates: “The marketplace is a battlefield. The Asian people view success in the business world as tantamount to victory in battle.” The book advises American executives to do the same. However, such metaphors are misleading...

This dissertation examines debt ratios, profitability, and commercial activity of the following hospitals: (i) for-profit hospitals [FP hospitals], (ii) nonprofit hospitals engaging in joint ventures [JV NP hospitals], and (iii) nonprofit hospitals that do not engage in joint ventures [Non-JV NP hospitals]. Financial variables are measured using Form 990 tax return data of nonprofit hospitals a...

In this study to investigates the factors prediction of capital structure on profitability. Over fourteen year from 2000 to 2013 periods the research concentrate on that study. Sample criteria for selecting net profit margin based top fifty companies are randomly selected the chemical industry. Random sampling technique was used to decide fifty Indian chemical companies. The result reveals that...

Several governments use the Credit Guarantee Schemes to ease SMEs’ access funding and support their growth survival. This paper suggests a lending guarantee technology based on risk sharing through de facto shareholding agreement cover potential losses reduce premature default risk. The simulation of typical entrepreneurial experiment shows that key SMEs dynamics (value creation, profitability,...