The scope of this paper is to explore the transaction profitability of frequent and sporadic buyers in the Brazilian e-retailing home appliance market. Concepts in relationship marketing literature stressing the impact of purchasing frequency on customer transaction profitability, as well as recent academic research challenging this approach and pointing out the importance of sporadic clients, ...

Several existing mechanisms for order processing, such as Available-to-Promise (ATP), Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), or Capable-to-Promise (CTP), do not really include simultaneous capacity and profitability considerations. One of the major issues in the incorporation of profitability analysis into the order management system is the determination of relevant costs in the order cycle, an...

We propose and conceptualize a new measure of information technology-enabled manufacturing capability, based on a plant’s ability to use its mix of inputs to maximize its process outputs, and study the impact of these capabilities on manufacturing plant profitability. Our study extends the literature on IT-enablement of process capabilities using Data Envelopment Analysis, a non-parametric appr...

The fifth generation (5G) of mobile services envisages network heterogeneity, cell densification, and high spectral efficiency using Massive MIMO, operating at millimeter-wave frequencies. Accurately assessing the potential of financial returns for such a complex network poses to operators unique challenges including techno-economic analysis leading to the identification of decision variables m...

Several rounds of banking reforms in China have aimed to increase the competitive condition and further enhance stability in the Chinese banking sector, while the joint effects of competition and risk-taking behaviour on the profitability in the banking sector have not been studied well enough so far in the literature. The current study contributes to the empirical literature by testing the imp...

The paper analyzes how bank characteristics and the overall financial environment affect the performance of Islamic banks. Utilizing bank level data, the study examines the performance indicators of Islamic banks’ worldwide during 1994-2001. A variety of internal and external banking characteristics were used to predict profitability and efficiency. In general, our analysis of determinants of I...

This paper proposes a continuous-time heterogeneous agent model of investor behaviour consisting of fundamentalist, contrarian, momentum and market maker strategies to study their impact on market stability and profitability. The underlying stochastic delay integro-differential equation model provides a unified approach to model different time horizons of momentum and contrarian strategies, whi...

China’s industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are commonly perceived as performing poorly. This leads authors to conclude that SOE reform so far has been a failure, and to recommend all-out privatization. Industrial SOE profitability indeed declined drastically in the course of the reform period, and industrial SOEs are always less profitable than industrial non-SOEs. However, the gap betwe...

European Union countries have implemented widespread reforms to product markets in order to stimulate competition, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme (SMP) were associated with increased product market competition, as measured by a reduction in average profitability, and with a subsequent increase in in...

This paper is in an attempt to examine the financial performance of privatelisted commercial banks in Bangladesh in terms of profitability. The study is based on cross-section data of annual financial statements of 15 listed commercial banks for the period 2008-2012. Five determinants have been chosen for this study. The Correlation matrix shows that profitability, asset quality, operating perf...