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The Representative Firm

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Marshall's idea of 'representative firm' was created to reconcile his dynamic view of individual firms with the static view of industries. But this idea was somewhat nebulous and did not last very long in the economics literature. Marshall first wrote about the representative firm in his "Principles of Economics" published in 1890 but the idea was ...
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The firm as a subeconomy

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 1999
This article explores the economic role of the firm in a market economy. The analysis begins with a discussion and critique of the property rights approach to the theory of the firm as exposited in the recent work by Hart and Moore (“Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm”).
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Firm debt structure and firm size [PDF]

open access: possible, 2009
The recent macro monetary policy debate over the existence of bank lending channels focuses on short-term bank borrowing versus short-term non-bank borrowing by firms. The approach is macro using aggregate manufacturing corporation data from the QFR of the US Census Bureau.
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Firm entry and firm growth

Review of Industrial Organization, 1993
This paper reports on the importance of firm entry and growth flows in Portuguese manufacturing during the period 1982–86, and investigates their determinants. We find that both movements are induced by past profitability and deterred by economies of scale, product differentiation and sunk costs.
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THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986
Direct investment is incorporated into a simple general equilibrium model of international trade. The analysis focuses on an attempt to endogenize the internalization decision. It is argued that a reasonable approach assumes that arm's length contracts must be "simple" so that "complex" arrangements require internalization.
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Financialisation and the Firm

2012
Forthcoming
Aglietta, Michel, Rebérioux, Antoine
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On firm foundations

Nature, 2005
Flexible and relatively unfettered, non-profit foundations are able to boldly go into areas of research funding often untouched by public bodies, says Helen Gavaghan.
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Firm Migration

2002
Due to changes in markets, consumer preferences, environmental regulations, technological progress and so on, firms are constantly adjusting to new situations. This process very often also has a spatial dimension. Characteristics of the spatial environment of a firm may change over time, but internal changes in addition may lead to other locational ...
Pellenbarg, Pieter   +2 more
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The Flexible Firm

International Studies of Management & Organization, 1979
Abstract In this article an attempt is made at giving a more concrete meaning to the notion of flexibility of a firm. The relationship between the dynamics of the environment on the one hand and the chosen strategy and organizational structure of the firm on the other, will be further analysed The aiming at flexibility is considered to be a separate ...
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Casting Firms’ Firm Favourites

Machinery, 2018
Two casting companies have upgraded their machining centre operations. Hallam Castings is using a DMG Mori CMX 800 V 40-taper vertical machining centre, while RD Castings favours Brother, 30-taper units
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