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

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 ".

Firms that engage in yield management usually use computer yield management systems to do so.

* Firms do not cooperate, i. e. there is no collusion ;

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

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.

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

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 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.

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 ).

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

Firms commonly set prices at existing price-points as a marketing strategy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Firms can also exhibit effective demands or supplies that differ from notional demands or supplies.

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