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 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 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.

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 are able to apply their core competencies, business model or network to achieve a profit above the industry average.

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

* 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.

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 producing VNRs disagree and equate their use to a press release in video form and point to the fact that editorial judgement in the worthiness, part or whole, of a VNR's content is still left in the hands of Journalists, Program Producers or the like.

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

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

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 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 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 ).

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.

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 ).

* Vault, Inc. ranked Orrick number 37 in its 2009 list of Top 100 Most Prestigious Firms in the United States.

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

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

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

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 have greater market power when they satisfy the consumer ’ s demand for products at closer distance or preferred products.

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.

* GAO Report: Increased Use of Alaska Native 8 ( a ) Firms Calls for Increased Oversight

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.

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

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.

* Tech Firms Go Mining for Megawatts, Washington Post, July 9, 2006

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

Firms are responsible for compliance with government regulations and internal regulations.

* Bryan Borlik, Director, Performance and National Programs, and Director, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms

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.

The school offers Master of Laws degrees in Intellectual Property, which is ranked 6th in the nation, Law Firms Rank Schools ranked 96th, Part-time Law ranked 48th, International and Comparative Law, and U. S. Law for Foreign Lawyers.

Chicago ranks second on the " Top 15 Schools From Which the Most ' Prestigious ' Law Firms Hire New Lawyers "; first for " Faculty quality based on American Academy of Arts and Sciences Membership "; third for " Supreme Court Clerkship Placement "; and fifth for " Student Quality ".

Firms that currently use Portland House for office space include American Express, Crossrail, Caxton FX, HomeAway UK / Owners Direct, NetBooster, TradeDoubler, uSwitch, Upmystreet. com, Rentokil Initial, AkzoNobel and Regus.

* Multicultural Law Magazine named Holland & Knight to its list of “ 100 Top Law Firms for Diversity .”

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

Firms that wish for an employee to exit of his or her own accord but do not wish to pursue firing or forced resignation, may degrade the employee's working conditions, hoping that he or she will leave " voluntarily ".

Ranked # 2 Overall and ranked as one of the Top 3 Firms for more than a decade.

Firms may have several motives for divestitures.