Profits in the Long Run

Klappentext Profits in the Long Run asks two questions: Are there persistent differences in profitability across firms? Zusammenfassung Profits in the Long Run asks two questions: Are there persistent differences in profitability across firms? If so! what accounts for them? This book answers these questions using data for the 1000 largest US manufacturing firms in 1950 and 1972. It finds that there are persistent differences in profitability and market power across large US companies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. The persistence of firms; 2. The persistence of profits above the norm; 3. The persistence of market power; 4. Profitability and market structure; 5. The results in perspective; 6. Profitability and the firm's own advertising, patent activity, risk, and other characteristics; 7. Profitability and managerial control and compensation; 8. Mergers and profitability; 9. Mergers and market share; 10. The threads gathered and conclusions woven; Appendices; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis C. Mueller, Dennis C. (University of Maryland Mueller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521101592
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10159-2
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, Microeconomics