The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether neural networks and, especially the Kohonen’s self-organizing map network, can be used in profitability analysis in distribution. We focus on the physical distribution part of the supply chain and build a neural network model a profitability map using shipment data from a large company. We show how the profitability map can be used in an effic...

W study the impact of operational performance on profitability in the context of the U.S. domestic airline industry. In addition, we investigate the impact of focus [Skinner, W. 1974. The focused factory. Harvard Bus. Rev. 52(3) 113–121] on profitability in services. We use quarterly data on all major carriers, available since the introduction of required reporting of service indicators to the ...

profitability as the most important factor in decision-making, has always been considered by stake­holders in the company's profitability. also can be a basis for evaluating the performance of the managers. the ability to predict the profitability can be very useful to help decision-makers. that's why one of the most important issues is the expected profitability. the importance of th...

Profitability as the most important factor in decision-making, has always been considered by stake­holders in the company's profitability. Also can be a basis for evaluating the performance of the managers. The ability to predict the profitability can be very useful to help decision-makers. That's why one of the most important issues is the expected profitability. The importance of these foreca...

This paper analyzes the impact of liquid asset holdings on bank profitability for a sample of Iranian banks. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM), this study analyzes the profitability of listed banks using unbalanced panel data over the period of 2002-2009. We use the liquidity asset and liquidity asset-ratio square for estimating liquid asset and profitability relationship. The e...

With a raster Digital Elevation Model, it is usual to associate a directed graph. Firstly, the problem of defining cost functions for such digraphs is discussed in a general and formal framework, and a particularly simple and natural way to tackle this problem is proposed. Secondly, the notion of profitability, which is commonly linked with the notion of cost, is put forward. Thus, profitabilit...

Customer satisfaction and customer loyalty are related to key measures of financial performance for firms. The ability to find key drivers for predicting loyalty and profitability is an important step in developing marketing strategies that lead to high quality, long-term relationship with customers. Traditional techniques for modeling the network of causeand-effect relationships related to loy...

This paper examines the impact that the running assets management on the profitability of Pakistan cement sector. Moreover, the study outlines the main factors that basically determine the working capital in the financials of Pakistan cement sector. To manage firm’ sliquid assets which is working capital management and to reach a desire equilibrium level among profitability and risk, figures wa...

The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing profitability in a feedlot environment and to estimate genetic parameters for and between a feedlot profit function and productive traits measured in growth tests. The heritability estimate of 0.36 for feedlot profitability shows that this trait is genetically inherited and that it can be selected for. The genetic correlations between fe...

This paper compares the performance of regional banks and national banks in Korea for the period of 19922004 by examining how the profitability of these two groups differs, identifying major determinants of profitability for each group, and explaining their similarities and differences. Two competing hypotheses, the market power hypothesis and the efficient structure hypothesis, are tested in a...