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 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 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.

Early optional adoption: Firms that have already issued securities

Most state programs have expanded the youth legislature into a full-scale 3-5 day State Assembly or Conference, operating a complete model government that offers student delegates the opportunity to serve as members of the Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Press Corps and Media, and Lobbyist Firms and many other program areas.

Firms in the middle were less profitable because they did not have a viable generic strategy.

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 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 have the option of producing goods by labour intensive technique and capital intensive technique.

Firms may have several motives for divestitures.

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.

Firms in industrial districts battle to internationalise production, and they have only limited resources to invest in research and development.

* Firms have market power, i. e. each firm's output decision affects the good's price ;

Firms believe that such individuals have excellent legal research and writing skills, and a strong command of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Firms that have severe fixed assets cannot adjust to the new challenges of the market as they have no room to change.

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.

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.

Firms which prefer stability use cost-plus pricing as a guide to price products in an uncertain market where knowledge is incomplete

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.

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.

Only on July 1, 1992, in contrast, did the PRC government open her legal services market to foreign law firms when the Ministry of Justice issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

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.

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 faced with lack of pricing power sometimes turn to yield management as a last resort.

Firms like power companies, cable television companies and wireless communication companies with large start up costs fall within this category.

* Firms switching to electric power showed significantly less employee sick time.

* Firms switching to electric power and using the same equipment showed significant increases in production.

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.

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.

Firms change prices when the benefit of changing a price becomes larger than the menu cost of changing a price.

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 exist as an alternative system to the market-price mechanism when it is more efficient to produce in a non-market environment.

Firms must determine when lost sales due to not having product on the shelves are balanced by increased handling and storage costs.

Firms should supply their DUNS number, and notify the requester of the discontinuation of the ACASS number, when asked for their ACASS number.

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

* Firms are never too sure about the shape of their demand curve neither are they very sure about the probable response to any price change.

Firms which produce these do so in so small production lots that they are necessarily made of white metal.

The SC never provided any professional services ( which were provided in each country by a Member Firm ) and did not pay any of its individual members ( who were partners in the individual Member Firms and received any remuneration to which they were entitled through their Member Firm ).

In their final year, they specialise even more, e. g. students of the " Economics and Firms " branch may select three distinct Masters 2: " Gestion financière de la banque " Management of Banks, " Pratique des marchés financiers " Markets in Practice or " Corporate Finance and Strategy in the EU " ( taught in English ).

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.