Funding combination is the most important issue for the companies while they know the amount of required capital. Companies should be careful regarding the appliance of financial providing methods compatible with the investment strategy of company and profitability. This study seeks to examine the relationship between the capital structure and the profitability of pharmaceutical companies in...

  Funding combination is the most important issue for the companies while they know the amount of required capital. Companies should be careful regarding the appliance of financial providing methods compatible with the investment strategy of company and profitability. This study seeks to examine the relationship between the capital structure and the profitability of pharmaceutical companies in...

The profitability of banks depends upon a number of factors including existing business conditions, bank size, efficiency of operations, leverage (volume of deposits to equity capital), and the extent of competition among banks. Overall bank profitability and some determinants of profitability can be measured by using a number of operating ratios as rate of return on capital, rate of return on ...

Uncertainty has qualitatively different implications than risk in studying executive incentives. We study the interplay between profitability uncertainty and moral hazard, where profitability is multiplicative with managerial effort. Investors who face greater uncertainty desire faster learning, and consequently offer higher managerial incentives to induce higher effort from the manager. In con...

Rumelt’s (1991) widely cited paper presents estimates of the relative influence of industry, corporate, business unit, and other influences on business unit profitability. He finds corporations explain almost none of the variability in business unit profitability. Using a simultaneous equation model, we provide alternative estimates of the influence of industry and corporation on business unit ...

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...

Objectives: To re-evaluate previously identified determinants of hospital profitability in the postPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act years. Data: Data were obtained from the Florida Uniform Hospital Reporting System, for years 20102014. Study sample: Sample consisted of general acute care or teaching, privately owned, urban hospitals in Florida. Study design: Longitudinal panel data de...

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...

presently, emerging economies are acquiring singular positions all over the world. the complexities of nowadays economy have caused international companies and investors to be of a tendency towards emerging markets for more profitability and growth. this study aims to find the relationships between firm's profitability and growth in iranian manufacturing industry consisting of tehran stock...