In China, ventures may be spectacularly unprofitable, yet enrich everyone lucky enough to get a piece.
Analysis of the proposed framework suggests that, even if a transshipment is likely to be unprofitable to the transshipping dyad, it may still be best for the entire supply chain.
Recently, as shown in Revisionist18 view, within two-dimensional game, semi-collusion may be profitable and efficient (Brod and Shivakumar 1999) under some circumstances, while it can be unprofitable and inefficient.
But companies also can be unprofitable.
To Mr. Bolduc, the union's Quebec director, suggestions that Jonquière is unprofitable and may be closed are just a tactic to frighten employees at other Wal-Mart stores away from the union.
"The concern is that banks are making loans to businesses at rates that are so low that they may end up being unprofitable.
If banks cannot recoup that money, he added, they may be forced to jettison unprofitable customers.
Fund managers worry that China Mobile may be forced to invest in unprofitable networks for the greater national good, according to Mr Ratzer.
Leaving an unprofitable market may be a sound business practice, but leaving elderly patients in turmoil to find medical insurance and new doctors is both ethically unconscionable and dangerous because it causes disruption in the continuity of care.
