Firms operating in competitive markets are under constant pressure to out perform each other.

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

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

Firms competing included Paul Cret and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary ; McKim, Mead, and White ; H. Van Buren Magonigle ; John Russell Pope ; John Latenser & Sons ; and Bertram G. Goodhue, who was not considered originally for the competition.

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 may engage in Stackelberg competition if one has some sort of advantage enabling it to move first.

The Department of Commerce program, Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms, provides financial assistance to manufacturers and service firms affected by import competition.

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

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

Firms protect the privacy of participants by promising that the data collected will be presented to the sponsor either in aggregate or in a format stripped of any personally identifiable information.

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

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

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

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 ).

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

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.

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

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 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 September 15, 2010, Sherman & Howard received 32 rankings in the U. S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers 2010 Best Law Firms rankings, which are presented in tiers both nationally and by state or metropolitan area.

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.