Firms under imperfect competition have the potential to be " price makers ", which means that, by holding a disproportionately high share of market power, they can influence the prices of their products.

Firms combine labour and capital, and can achieve far greater economies of scale ( when the average cost per unit declines as more units are produced ) than individual market trading.

Firms can spend as little as one or two months raising capital when they are able to reach the target that they set for their funds relatively easily, often through gaining commitments from existing investors in their previous funds, or where strong past performance leads to strong levels of investor interest.

Of course one needs to note that Equity capital has the highest cost in the long run, as a firm needs to demonstrate higher return on investment for its shareholders Firms can also combine the three types of financing, angel / venture, factoring and bank line of credit to further reduce their total cost of funds whilst at the same time improving cash flow.

Firms competing for overseas contracts have sometimes argued in the press for equal chances during the bidding process, such as when American oil corporations wanted equal shots at developing oil fields in Sumatra ; and firms, seeing how fairness is beneficial while competing for contracts, can apply the lesson to other areas such as internal hiring and promotion decisions.

Firms can change organisational structures ( e. g. core functions and supplier relationships ), management systems and work arrangements to take the best advantage of new technologies and changing market opportunities.

Firms who can achieve economies by increasing their scale of industrial activities benefit from agglomeration.

The Headhunters or originally the ' Chelsea Shed boys ' can trace their roots to the late 1960s, when football hooliganism was in its infancy and along with West Ham's ' Mile End Mob ' were one of the original Football Firms.

Firms that produce locally-produced goods can charge a premium for that good.

Firms taking advantage of strategic partnerships can utilize other company's strengths to make both firms stronger in the long run.

Firms offering such services differ in the range of services provided, but can include art purchase financing, art secured lending, art insurance, art appraisal, provenance verification, market research, curatorial services, art investment advice, and personal shopping services.

Firms can also assess the quality of customer experience with the shops with the use of mystery shoppers.

The primary question of “ imitability ” asked in the VRIO framework in internal analysis is that “ Do firms without a resource or capability face a cost disadvantage in obtaining or developing it compared to firms that already possess it ?” Firms with valuable and rare resources, which are hard to imitate by other firms, can gain the first-mover advantages in the market and can hence gain competitive advantage.

Firms also face different degrees of competition in markets for their products.

Firms which have been found to have violated some of the requirements of the H-1B program are also treated as though they were H-1B dependent employers for a probationary period.

Firms may also be able to design self-selection or screening devices that induce workers to reveal their true characteristics.

They are also sometimes called SPIFS ( Stamps Perforated with Initials of Firms and Societies ).

Firms experiencing increasing returns to scale are also experiencing decreasing average total costs.

Firms that encompass both fab work and machining are also common.

Firms that rely on sweepstakes for attracting customers, such as Publishers Clearing House and Reader's Digest, have also found that the more involved the entry process, the more entrants, in a similar way to casinos inventing games that appear to rely partly on skill.

The firm is also recognized in various other surveys, including Vault. com ’ s 2010 review of the 20 Best Law Firms to Work For.

The firm is also recognized in various other surveys, including Vault. com ’ s 2010 review of the 20 Best Law Firms to Work For.

Firms that design and build food processing plants, consulting firms, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and health-care firms also hire food engineers.

Firms also rent shows.

Fluor has also been ranked No. 1 in Engineering News-Record ( ENR ) magazine's 2012 list of Top 100 Design-Build Firms and No. 2 on its Top 400 Contractors list.

Firms started highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly trying to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis.

Firms that need to increase their volume of emissions must buy permits from those who require fewer permits.

Firms that specialize in delivering commercial goods from point of production or storage to point of sale are generally known as distributors, while those that specialize in the delivery of goods to the consumer are known as delivery services.

Firms compete by setting prices simultaneously and consumers want to buy everything from a firm with a lower price ( since the product is homogeneous and there are no consumer search costs ).

Firms provide consumers with goods and services in exchange for consumer expenditure and " factors of production " from households.

Following the substantial growth of the consulting services practices of the Member Firms, and the decision taken by the members of the SC to divide the individual national practices of Arthur Andersen into two separate sets of entities-Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting-in 1977, pressure primarily from the consulting partners led to an agreed change of name of the SC to Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative.

On returning from their year abroad, students are required to specialise in one of the three following categories: International Relations, Economics and Firms or Public Administration.

Firms that simply do not wish to change their strategy or products and incur sunk costs from “ cannibalizing ” or changing the core of their business, fall victim to this inertia.

Firms operating outside of the special " enterprise zones " ( either privately run, export-processing zones or government sponsored free zones ) enjoy many of the same benefits as those operating within the zones.

Firms are often small to medium in size and operate in the building and building materials ( Rome, Civitavecchia ), paper ( Sora ), petrochemical ( Gaeta, Rome ), textile ( Frosinone ), engineering ( Rieti, Anagni ), automobile ( Cassino ), electronic and electrotechnical ( Viterbo ) sectors.

Firms often collude in an attempt to stabilize unstable markets, so as to reduce the risks inherent in these markets for investment and product development.

Firms will often enter the industry in the long run.

* Council of Public Relations Firms U. S. trade association for public relations firms

* Juliet D ’ Souza, William L. Megginson ( 1999 ), " The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatised Firms during the 1990s ", Journal of Finance August 1999

Firms with superior software thus have an incentive to offer samples, except if their product is already well known, or if they do not want to be listed in direct competition with other products on shareware repositories.

Firms will produce additional output as long as the cost of producing an extra unit of output is less than the price they will receive.

Firms are required to hold a number of permits ( or allowances or carbon credits ) equivalent to their emissions.

Firms that keep their emission levels below their allotted level may sell their surplus permits to other firms or use them to offset excess emissions in other parts of their facilities.

Firms will choose the least-cost way to comply with the pollution regulation, which will lead to reductions where the least expensive solutions exist, while allowing emissions that are more expensive to reduce.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

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Firms would make rational decisions by weighing the sacrifices involved.

Firms such as Boeing, General Motors, Allen-Bradley, Chrysler, Eaton, and Whirlpool have worked on fuzzy logic for use in low-power refrigerators, improved automotive transmissions, and energy-efficient electric motors.

Ernst & Young was ranked No. 1 in the Forbes Magazine < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s The Best Accounting Firms to Work For in 2012, claiming that EY treats its employees better than other big firms.

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Firms hire them because they see the inflation as allowing higher profits for given nominal wages.

Firms face a kinked demand curve if, when one firm decreases its price, other firms will follow suit in order to maintain sales, and when one firm increases its price, its rivals are unlikely to follow, as they would lose the sales ' gains that they would otherwise get by holding prices at the previous level.