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If you're certain you want to shorten the sentence in that way, the word 'respectively' would be be a very useful tool for clarifying what grammatical role is being played by each of the bracketed ...
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System
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2019-12-08T11:38:56Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Chessanator
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2019-12-08T11:38:56Z (over 4 years ago)
If you're certain you want to shorten the sentence in that way, the word '_respectively_' would be be a very useful tool for clarifying what grammatical role is being played by each of the bracketed sections. In your case, I would write the sentence as: > A firm outperforms (or underperforms) the industry when expression (1) results in a positive (respectively, negative) value. This is probably best used when the context is relatively formal/academic where readers are more likely to expect and understand this structure.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-04-08T00:49:56Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 2