BP said its oil-refining division was less profitable in the fourth quarter than it was in the third as seasonal shifts and a strike in Venezuela sent prices for crude oil soaring.
In a theory often touted by business consultants, an industrys largest incumbents are unlikely to develop such technologies, for two reasons: first, they are less profitable in their initial stages, and second, they have the potential to undermine existing products.
In a theory often touted by business consultants, an industry's largest incumbents are unlikely to develop such technologies, for two reasons: first, they are less profitable in their initial stages, and second, they have the potential to undermine existing products.
While the corrected results demonstrate that the brokerage model is less profitable in absolute terms than previously thought, the conclusions drawn by R&C still largely hold.
In regard to hierarchical structure, the lower the level of the government the greater the possibility that local fiscal revenue is highly dependent on the profits of local enterprises, and the smaller the possibility that the local government will invest in state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises that are less profitable in comparison.
Selection for background markers was less profitable in this study than recovering the donor genome by selection on phenotype.
To facilitate exports the government introduced a price stabilisation fund in 1996 which helped protect the revenues of the palm oil producers [43].3 However, the export market turned out to be less profitable than the national market, in particular, the high production costs in Colombia made competition with the two global largest producers—Indonesia and Malaysia difficult [43].
We can admit that pregnant workers may be less profitable employees than nonpregnant workers in the short term, yet choose to value aspects of life beyond economic productivity.
"That will mean that banking in future will be less profitable; but that I think is an inevitable consequence of the crisis," he said.
Alternative crops would be less profitable.
