Knowledge Based Theory of the Firm by R.M. Grant Assumptions * Firms apply knowledge to the production of good and services * Knowledge is the most strategically important of a firm ’s resources * Knowledge is created and held by individuals‚ not organizations * Firms exist because markets are incapable of coordinating the knowledge of individual specialists. This is the role of the management within a firm. Coordination of Specialized Knowledge While organizational theory
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Survival and growth of small firms Introduction Peacock (2000) argues that small business is different from large corporations by small size and rate of turnover and failure rate. According to Small Business Association‚ two-thirds of newly founded firms can survive within the first 2 years and only 44 percent are still in business after 4 years. Lowe et. al (1990) argues that failure ‘exists between failing and growing small firms.’ It can be perceived as there are 2 levels to develop small enterprises
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Financial Crises and Firm Performance Financial crises • Financial crises could happen anywhere‚ although emerging markets tended to be more seriously afflicted in recent times • Companies operating in a region where a financial crisis had broken out could undergo corporate disasters as a result. • The following sections describe what happened during three major financial crises in the late 1990s and early 2000s‚ and how the business sectors of the regions were affected. • The best-known of
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appropriate goal of a firm? Maximization of shareholder wealth is said to be the primary goal of a firm. The financial manager has the responsibility to act in their best interests. Since‚ the common stockholders are the firm’s most important stakeholders to continue operate the business. This goal means that the financial manager can best serve business owners by identifying goods and services that add value to the firm because the market place desires and values what the firm offers. Firms should make
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Barriers to Entry of New Firms For a firm to maintain its monopoly position there must be barriers to entry of new firms. Barriers also exist under oligopoly‚ but in the case of monopoly they must be high enough to block the entry of new firms. Barriers can be of various forms. • Economies of scale. If a monopoly experiences substantial economies of scale‚ the industry may not be able to support more than one producer. • Network economies. When a product or service is used by everyone in the
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sellers b. significant nonprice competition among firms c. a standardized product produced by firms d. no barriers to entry e. no barriers to exit 4. Firms in a perfectly competitive market cannot influence a. the quantity of the good that they produce b. how much labor to use in production c. how much capital to employ in production d. the level of advertising that they use e. the price of the product they sell 5. Firms are assumed to be price takers in a perfectly competitive
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Why firms go international? There are many reasons can promote firms go international‚ includes the domestic market saturation‚ end of PLC in domestic market‚ geographic diversification‚ to gain the economies of scale‚ stiff competition in domestic market and absence of competitors overseas etc. 1. Some firms go international in order to gain the economies of scale. As a research has pointed out that a doubling of output can reduce the production costs by up to 30 per cent. This is very obvious
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Firm Entrepreneurship and Measures of Firm Entrepreneurship Activity The main hypothesis of the economic theory of entrepreneurship is that in the economy firm entrepreneurship contributes to production through the combination of the existing productive factors. Innovation and firm entrepreneurship are found to have positive economic effects mainly in terms of employment opportunities‚ taxation revenues and economic output. The measurements of these positive effects provide the basis of international
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Managerial Theories of Firm Marris and Williamson’s Models Marris’ Managerial Thesis of Firm Marris has put forth a significant thesis of firm as per which the managers do not optimise profits but in its place as per him‚ they look for to optimise profits balanced rate of increase of the firm. Optimisation of balanced rate of increase of the firm entails optimisation of the rate of increase of demand for the commodities of the firm and rate of increase of capital supply. If I symbolises
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