Firms firm size

Expertise professed by the firm and size of projects which they can undertake. 

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. 

Starking Hardy Giant Wisconsin, 4th USA medium semi-vigorous, broad early medium medium firm, medium-sized fruit virus-free material essential... 

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. ... 

The facilities decisions include the size of the facility, the location of the facility, and the extent to which the facility is specialized. In some types of firms the size of the facility is directly related to the capacity of the facility. For example, the size of a fast food restaurant will determine how many customers per hour can be served. In other industries, the size of the facility may allow for future capacity expansion. For example, a firm may establish a new facility and... 

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... 

Method of estimation Ordinary least squares, t-statistics in parenthesis Diversity is measured by the number of industrial sub-sectors (4 digit SIC codes) in which a firm operates. Size is measured by chemical sales in millions of dollars. 

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... 

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