Once, trading on one's box office draw for exposure and profit was perceived as selling out, a sign of desperation, even decline.
The policy is intended to halt what the industry calls "gaming," a form of arbitrage in which investors trade in and out of funds to try to profit from perceived discrepancies in their prices and the values of underlying portfolios.
Physicians in private for-profit hospitals perceived significantly fewer job demands than those in public and private nonprofit hospitals (F2,200 = 4.24, p =.01).
Unless it is checked either by CSR or (as Mr Bakan would prefer, if only as a first step) by double-strength government regulation, private enterprise makes losers of everyone but itself.Private profit, public interestThe perceived tension between private profit and public interest pervades the CSR literature.
University of Pennsylvania research demonstrated that most people tend to link perceived profits with perceived social harm.
A motivation for adoption was the perceived profits for DECs.
"The lure of high profit and a perceived lack of enforcement consequences has increasingly emboldened counterfeiters," said a statement by Michael J. Garcia, an assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Investment in this market requires understanding its unique attributes, and entrance not based on perceived profit opportunity but because it's an opportunity to impact a public good that transforms people's lives.
The majority of farmer respondents in the survey of Alsemgeest and Smit (2012) perceived profit maximization as the goal currently strived for by agricultural businesses, whereas the provision of competitive services to farmers and improving farm profitability, which were voiced as the main goals, were not in the business focus.
We explored whether preference for treatment was related to the fact that treatment has more short term effects, greater certainty with regard to the attribution of positive outcomes, a higher proportion of people who profit, and greater perceived urgency.
