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  2. Theory of the firm - Wikipedia

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    Williamson sees the limit on the size of the firm as being given partly by costs of delegation (as a firm's size increases its hierarchical bureaucracy does too), and the large firm's increasing inability to replicate the high-powered incentives of the residual income of an owner-entrepreneur. This is partly because it is in the nature of a ...

  3. Gibrat's law - Wikipedia

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    Gibrat's law, sometimes called Gibrat's rule of proportionate growth or the law of proportionate effect, [1] is a rule defined by Robert Gibrat (1904–1980) in 1931 stating that the proportional rate of growth of a firm is independent of its absolute size. [2] [3] The law of proportionate growth gives rise to a firm size distribution that is ...

  4. Small business - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Small Business Administration establishes small business size standards on an industry-by-industry basis but generally specifies a small business as having fewer than 500 employees for manufacturing businesses and less than $7.5 million in annual receipts for most non-manufacturing businesses.

  5. Business - Wikipedia

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    The size and scope of the business firm and its structure, management, and ownership, broadly analyzed in the theory of the firm. Generally, a smaller business is more flexible, while larger businesses, or those with wider ownership or more formal structures, will usually tend to be organized as corporations or (less often) partnerships.

  6. Business valuation - Wikipedia

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    Business valuation is a process and a set of procedures used to estimate the economic value of an owner's interest in a business. Here various valuation techniques are used by financial market participants to determine the price they are willing to pay or receive to effect a sale of the business. In addition to estimating the selling price of a ...

  7. List of business theorists - Wikipedia

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    Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. - management, Pulitzer prize for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977) Clayton M. Christensen; Alexander Hamilton Church - industrial management (1900s–1910s) C. West Churchman; Stewart Clegg; Ronald Coase - transaction costs, Coase theorem, theory of the firm (1950s) (Nobel Prize in 1991)

  8. The Nature of the Firm - Wikipedia

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    "The Nature of the Firm" (1937) is an article by Ronald Coase.It offered an economic explanation of why individuals choose to form partnerships, companies, and other business entities rather than trading bilaterally through contracts on a market.

  9. Middle-market company - Wikipedia

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    A middle-market or mid-market company is one that is larger than a small business and smaller than a big business. [1] [2] Different authorities use different metrics to compare company sizes — some look at revenue, others at either asset size or number of employees [3] — with the result that different authorities give different definitions of the "middle market".