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 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.

Firms like Mitsui and Sumitomo were led by non-family managers such as Minomura Rizaemon, who guided the business by accurately forecasting the coming political and economic situations, by acquaintance with high-ranking government officials or politicians, and bold investment.

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 such as Ruston and Bucyrus made models such as the RB10 which were popular for small building works and drainage work.

Firms such as Archer Dry Transfers or Decalomaniacs produce stand-alone sheets of wet or dry transfer markings to allow the modeler to complete a different or more accurate variant.

Firms with assembly facilities in the Middle Tennessee area, such as Nissan and Saturn are particularly well represented.

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 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 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 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 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.

Firms that pursue this strategy believe that the additional sales revenue it creates more than offsets the additional costs of research and development and opportunity costs of existing product line cannibalization.

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Firms that gain new practice areas or departments through recruiting or mergers that are more complex and demanding ( and typically more profitable ) may see the focus, organization and resources of the firm shift dramatically towards those new departments.

In recent years, more than 30 monographs written by our teachers or researchers were awarded the provincial level or the national ministry level prize, in which Study on China Agriculture Insurance with the Social Guarantee System, China's 50-Year Enterprise Theories, Research on Minority-Population Policy of China, Operational Mode to Father Firms and Economics Development with the Practical ‘ Think-Tanker ’** Theory were respectively awarded the first-class prize of the 8th-issue selected excellent achievements on philosophy and social science of Beijing ; the second-class prize of the 3rd-issue humane study of the Ministry of National Education and the best book prize of China's 14th issue ; the first-class excellent achievement prize of the second issue social science of Chongqing Municipality, and the first-class excellent achievement prize of philosophy and social science of Beijing's 7th and the 8th issue.

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

Firms will engage in non-price competition, in spite of the additional costs involved, because it is usually more profitable than selling for a lower price, and avoids the risk of a price war.

Firms are even more interested in a former law clerk if the firm generally appears before the clerk's former judge.

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

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 are responsible for compliance with government regulations and internal regulations.

* General Equilibrium with Price-Making Firms ( with Thomas Marschak ), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag.

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

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.

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 operating under conditions of monopoly or imperfect competition are faced with downward sloping demand curves.

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.

Firms need to know which other software products their product must work with ( e. g. operating systems ) to provide the most usability for the customer.

The individual equity partners of Arthur Andersen LLP and the other firms associated with it became the individual members of the SC and the firms themselves became Member Firms by signing a formal agreement with the SC.

Organised chit fund schemes are required to register with the Registrar or Firms, Societies and Chits.

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms provides import impacted companies with professional guidance, business recovery plan development, and cost-sharing for outside consulting services.

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

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 vary greatly in size, product range, product characteristics etc.

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

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.

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.

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.