Firm size

Orser, B. J., Hogarth-Scott, S., Riding, A. L. 2000. Performance, firm size, and management problem solving. Journal of Small Business Management, 38(4) 42-58. 

Our results demonstrate the importance of accounting for customer-specific effects. We find differential responsiveness occasioned by (a) competitor factors (e.g. competitor performance), (b) customer factors (e.g. firm size), (c) company factors (e.g. account team tenure), and (d) relationship factors (e.g. sharing information). Readers are referred to the paper for more complete discussion of the results. 

Jensen (1987) reviewed these earlier studies and provided new estimates. She did not hnd that marginal product of research expenditures depended on hrm size. Her results instead suggest that, except for the smallest firms, there is no particular advantage for new products of either large research scale or large firm size. 

Vernon, John M., and Peter Gusen. 1974. Technical Change and Firm Size Pharmaceutical Industry. Review of Economics and Statistics 56 294—302. 

Thomas, L. G., Regulation and Firm Size FDA Impacts on Innovation, Columbia Uni-... 

A study in 1965 by William S. Comanor (5), deals with research and technical change solely within the pharmaceutical industry. Comanor s analysis provides some evidence that in the pharmaceutical industry there are substantial diseconomies of scale in R D which are associated with large firm size and that these disadvantages are encountered even by moderately sized firms. ... 

Experience Rating. From economic theory the more responsive WC premiums are to changing safety levels the more dramatically firms will expand their safety efforts as WC benefits rise. In practice, insurance companies combine injury statistics for all workers in an industrial class to determine the so-called manual rate for WC coverage. For small firms the product of each worker s wage rate and the manual rate for his or her industrial class summed over all workers determines the firm s total WC insurance premium. As firm size rises insurers pay less attention to the average experience of the industrial... 

The cost of an ERP implementation can also vary widely and is a function of firm size. A conference board study of 186 SAP implementations in 2000 found ... 

We recognize that there are also other definitions of scalability, including feasibility regardless of the actual firm size. Right now ERP systems are only economically feasible for large firms. However, these large firms need to connect to the small firms that are part of their supply web if they are to achieve true collaboration and coordination. Section 6 will further discuss decentralization and outsourcing of enterprise systems. Additionally, for scalability, this communication must take place in a standardized manner, which we discuss below. 

Depending on the firm size and the distribution of embedded users inside the firm, managers should try to spread the development risk by involving employees exhibiting different degrees of lead userness as internal test markets ... 

Chelius, j., and Smith, R. (1987) Firm Size and Regulatory Costs The Case of Workers Compensation Insurance , Journal of Policy Analysis and Maruigement 6/2. 

Firm sizes, number of chain levels, fragmentation degree on levels, relationships... 

Table 7 Restructuring volumes by industry, region, and firm size.

Abstract The objective of this paper is to investigate whether large firm size is conductive... 

The issues of firm size, market structure, monopoly, competition and technical progress where brought into mainstream economics by Joseph A. Schumpter and have been widely investigated by economists for a long time (see e.g. Scherer, 1965 Pavitt, Robson, Townsend, 1987 Symeonidis, 1996). 

The previous investigations suggest that the question of how firm size relates to the ability to invent and innovate can not be answered in a generalised fashion. Among others, industry, technology, and history matter (Freeman and Soete, 1997, p. 240). 

In order to analyse the relationship between firm size and invention we use patent applications. Patent applications are a rather good indicator for inventive output in chemical industry because patents represent technological ideas with an inventive step and the propensity to patent inventions is high in the chemical sector (Freeman and Soete, 1997, p.ll3). Furthermore, by using patent applications we avoid any subjective assessment of inventions. 

Firm size Total of West German Selected firms... 

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