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...

this paper studies the effects of six factors including industry type, size, age, ratio of capital to total assets, ratio of debts to assets, and advertising costs on profitability of com companies accepted in tse. profitability is defined at the three standard levels of roa, roat, and roe. the sample used in this research belong to the companies which are accepted in tse vy feb. 2001, and they...

regard to increasing demand for organic agricultural products, awareness of costs and profitability of organic products can help to decision planners of agricultural sector, and particularly farmers. this study has tried to calculate cost and profitability of cotton product in two different conventional and organic ways (procedure) of production using 253 cross-sectional data from khorasan raza...

This paper uses a sample of 180,738 tax entities from the full Australian Tax Office (ATO) tax return data to investigate the determinants of profitability. The sample of Australian tax entities are averaged over the period 1994/95 to 1996/97. Analysis is carried out at a 3 digit ANZSIC level of classification. Using simple regression techniques the analysis suggests that size of entity is posi...

The main objective of this research is the index of profitability on the capital structure of listed companies on the Stock Exchange of Tehran. Statistical population consisted of all above companies that 138 companies were selected in time zone of 2011-2014 after screening method (systematic elimination). The research method is descriptive and correlation and study variable is profitability in...

This paper seeks to investigate the determinants of banking network profitability in Iran from 2007 to 2012. The results of our study indicate that both bank-specific factors and macroeconomic factors influence banks’ profitability in Iran. Results confirm that bank profitability is significantly influenced by investment to total assets ratio, non-performing loans to total assets ratio, a...

Not only in Iran, but throughout the world, banks and banking industry are considered as very important parts of the economy. This study seeks to investigate the impact of the internal characteristics of banks, the structure of the banking industry and the economic situation of Iran on the profitability of the banking system of Iran by exploring the theory of the Structuralism school concerning...