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.

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Firms taking advantage of strategic partnerships can utilize other company's strengths to make both firms stronger in the long run.

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 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.

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

* Holland & Knight was ranked as one of the Top 30 Midwest Real Estate Law Firms by Midwest Real Estate News.

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

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 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 ).

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 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

The program for Farmers is administered by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the Firms and Communities programs are administered by the U. S. Department of Commerce.

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

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.

* In 2010, Davis Polk was ranked third in " Revenue per Lawyer " by the American Lawyer's top 100 National Firms.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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* Juliet D ’ Souza, William L. Megginson ( 1999 ), " The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatised Firms during the 1990s ", Journal of Finance August 1999

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 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.

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.

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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.

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.