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Managerial theories of the firm, as developed by William Baumol (1959 and 1962), Robin Marris (1964) and Oliver E. Williamson (1966), suggest that managers would seek to maximise their own utility and consider the implications of this for firm behavior in contrast to the profit-maximising case. (Baumol suggested that managers’ interests are ...
The profit maximization issue can also be approached from the input side. That is, what is the profit maximizing usage of the variable input? [13] To maximize profit the firm should increase usage of the input "up to the point where the input's marginal revenue product equals its marginal costs". [14]
The virtual assembly of the firm, with the decision-making process as the unit, for the purpose of predicting their behaviour is highly questioned by critics. There has also been staunch support for profit maximization rather than satisficing behaviour, which is one of the core elements of the model. [13]
Managerial economics aims to provide the tools and techniques to make informed decisions to maximize the profits and minimize the losses of a firm. [4] Managerial economics has use in many different business applications, although the most common focus areas are related to the risk, pricing, production and capital decisions a manager makes. [31]
Profits (US$ millions) 1 Nigeria National Petroleum: Oil and gas 9,706 1,877 2 Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas: Oil and gas 6,315 ... 3 MTN Nigeria: Telecommunications 3,514 536 4 Dangote Cement: Cement 2,699 721 5 Nigerian Petroleum Development: Oil and gas 2,686 219 6 Flour Mills of Nigeria: Agroindustry 2,014 67 7 Airtel Nigeria ...
In economics, the profit motive is the motivation of firms that operate so as to maximize their profits.Mainstream microeconomic theory posits that the ultimate goal of a business is "to make money" - not in the sense of increasing the firm's stock of means of payment (which is usually kept to a necessary minimum because means of payment incur costs, i.e. interest or foregone yields), but in ...
In Bertrand’s model, there are two firms and each firm selects a price to maximize its own profits, given the price that it believes the other firm will select. [9] Monopoly, where there is only one seller of a product or service which has no substitute. The firm is the price maker as they have control over the industry.
Hotelling's lemma is a result in microeconomics that relates the supply of a good to the maximum profit of the producer. It was first shown by Harold Hotelling, and is widely used in the theory of the firm. Specifically, it states: The rate of an increase in maximized profits with respect to a price increase is equal to the net supply of the good.