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Productivity, profitability and financial performance
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2008This work presents a comparative analysis of two crucial dimensions of firms’ performance: profitability and productivity. The characteristics of their empirical distribution and the associated degree of persistence over time are explored through a set of parametric and non-parametric exercises performed on an exhaustive panel of Italian firms, active ...
Giulio Bottazzi +2 more
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Measuring Financial Performance: An Overview of Financial Statements
Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 1995Financial management has emerged as a critical component in the long-term viability of today's ranches and farms. Proper and timely financial reporting and analysis of financial statements are valuable tools that agricultural producers can use to monitor, coordinate, and plan their operational production and marketing schemes and strategies.
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The financial system and economic performance
Journal of Financial Services Research, 1990The core function of the financial system is to facilitate the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. This system includes the basic payment system through which virtually all transactions clear and the capital markets which include the money, fixed-income, equity, futures, and ...
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Lean manufacturing, non‐financial performance measures, and financial performance
International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 2009PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how utilization of non‐financial manufacturing performance (NFMP) measures impacts the lean manufacturing/financial performance relationship.Design/methodology/approachA structural equation model (SEM) is estimated using data provided by 121 US manufacturing executives.
Rosemary R. Fullerton, William F. Wempe
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Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, 2009The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based "crowd-sourcing" models of production. Here we investigate the effect of compensation on performance in the context of two experiments, conducted on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT).
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
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Hospital strategy and financial performance
Health Care Management Review, 1992Five archetype strategies are studied involving productivity, diversification, or a hybrid approach. Manager opinions, staffing ratios, and profitability data bring the strategy effectiveness issue into perspective. Hospitals employing the productivity/defender strategy, specializing in fewer product lines, experienced less decline in profitability in ...
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On the nature and financial performance of bitcoin
The Journal of Risk Finance, 2019Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide some insights on the true nature of bitcoin and to study empirically its performance by using robust models, widely used in the academic literature. Previous studies assess performance with simple measures such as the Sharpe ratio.
Alfieri, Élise +2 more
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TRADE UNIONS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Oxford Economic Papers, 1996This paper investigates the relationship between trade unions and financial performance using British establishment-level data. We estimate the average overall impact of manual union recognition in 1990 to be roughly half what it was in 1984. We report results suggesting that in 1990 unionized establishments have lower financial performance only where ...
Machin, Stephen, Stewart, Mark
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Appraising financial performance for financial institutions
Long Range Planning, 1980Abstract The author is an investment analyst whose area of specialization is financial shares, especially in banking. The prime responsibility of the investment analyst is to the investment institutions. However, the information available to the analyst is no more than that available to shareholders in the institution being monitored.
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ESG performance and financial performance
The Korean Career, Entrepreneurship & Business AssociationESG, as sustainability issue, is stressed in both processes of government policy making and corporate strategy development. The purpose of this paper is examining the ESG situations related to both the government and private companies in Korea. The first part investigates the diverse policies and initiatives related to ESG in Korea.
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