The effect of firm life cycle on profitability: Evidence from Jordanian firms
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Profitability is an important performance measure and a related study based on the life cycle of firms is appreciated by researchers and managers. The impact of the financial crisis adds novelty to such research. This study discusses the impact of financial ratios on profitability of firms under the influence of financial crises. It is based on a sample of 42 Jordanian firms and uses panel data regression on an annual dataset for the time period 2000-2018. The study found mature stage firms to be explained best with the suggested model. The impact of current ratio on the profitability of all companies was observed as positive while the profitability is found to be negatively affected by debt for all life cycle stages except for the declining stage. Also, it is found that the declining stage firms need to rely on debt to stay profitable and sustain.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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