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	Ideal firm size - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ideal firm size is the theoretically most competitive size for any company, in a given industry, at a given time; which should ideally correspond with the highest possible per-unit profit.
		If only diseconomies of scale were considered, then the ideal firm size would be one worker.
		Note that the ideal size of a firm may also change over time, as industry and market conditions change.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ideal_firm_size (430 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Firm size and the relative importance of export activities, as measured by total revenues and export intensity, respectively, increase the likelihood of proprietary distribution but not of commercial alliances.
		Firms with proprietary distribution abroad tend to have slightly higher export intensity ratios than firms without them, except for firms with 75 percent or more foreign capital participation, for which the relationship is in the opposite direction.
		Firms participated by foreign capital, with R&D intensities higher than the average in their industry, and high export growth over the last five years are positive predictors of both forms of internalization.
	www.gsia.cmu.edu /bosch/camp.html (6427 words)

	Piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six octaves by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven octaves by 1820.
		The Steinway firm once incorporated Teflon, a synthetic material developed by DuPont, for some grand action parts in place of cloth, but ultimately abandoned the experiment due to an inherent "clicking" which invariably developed over time.
		More recently, the Kawai firm has built pianos with action parts made of more modern and effective plastics such as carbon fiber; these parts have held up better and have generally received the respect of piano technicians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano (4999 words)

	XXVII-A
		In those studies, board size, the existence of outsiders, and the proportion of outsiders on the board were frequently hypothesized to have a direct affect on firm performance.
		Board size was measured as the number of individuals serving on the firm’s board, while the percentage of outsiders on the board was calculated by dividing the number of outsiders on the board by total board size.
		Firm size was not a significant moderator of the board influence-firm performance relationship, although the p-values were only slightly greater than.10.
	www.babson.edu /entrep/fer/XXVII/XXVIIA/html/xxvii-a.htm (5444 words)

	Hildebrandt International - Survival Tips for Mid-Size Firms—Staying in the Game (12/14/99)
		Many of the local mid-sized firms that have shocked the community with merger announcements merged at their peak, not because they were in turmoil.
		Although a firm may consider several strategic initiatives to enhance its position in the marketplace, merger is one of the strongest and more expedient means to accomplish this.
		It is better to rid the firm of its “warts” while in the self-evaluation process than in the midst of merger negotiations (or later) at the behest of your new partner.
	www.hildebrandt.com /Documents.aspx?Doc_ID=620 (1579 words)

	Legal Authority - Career center
		There is a wide variety of firm types, from the stuffy "white shoe" firms of old to the more laid-back environments where no one wears a suit unless he or she is sneaking out of the office for a job interview.
		Smaller firms tend to rely more heavily on every employee, meaning that even if you are just a first-year associate, you'll be expected to pitch in on important projects.
		At larger firms, if you are low on the totem pole, you'll be expected to pay your dues by working on research and analysis before you can jump into more exciting work.
	www.legalauthority.com /cc/firmculture.html (1899 words)

	Firm size matters
		Firm size relates to the number of firms of a given size for all 5.5 million US tax-paying companies included in the 1997 census, according to a 'power law'.
		Economists have been long frustrated at their inability to explain the spread of firm sizes, or even to agree on what it is. Many studies of corporate growth are based on the work of French economist Robert Gibrat from the 1930s.
		The emergence of firms in a population of agents: local increasing returns, unstable Nash equilibria, and power law size distributions.
	www.mindswap.org /2002/nature/010913-2.xml (479 words)

	Returns to scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When combined, economies of scale and diseconomies of scale lead to ideal firm size theory, which states that per-unit costs decrease until they reach a certain minimum, then increase as the firm size increases further.
		Network externalities resemble economies of scale, but they are not considered such because they are a function of the number of users of a good or service in an industry, not of the production efficiency within a business.
		Economies of scale external to the firm (or industry wide scale economies) are only considered examples of network externalities if they are driven by demand side economies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Increasing_returns (803 words)

	Strategic Options for "Increasing the Pie"
		The attorney in the smaller firm may be able to keep informed about the firm's activities by personal observation and involvement, while his and her counterpart in the larger organization may have to rely more on the official lines of communication.
		Law firms, organized as partnerships or structured as professional corporations that function as partnerships, may enjoy financial success and growth because of the close association between the client and one or more of the partners who bind the firm to that client.
		Firm management must be willing to manage the firm and ensure that its members accept their responsibilities and satisfy their obligations for the management of administrative and practice areas.
	www.joelarose.com /articles/stratopt.html (1606 words)

	NewsLetter
		Businesses and law firms that have a mission statement, a strategic plan and an operational plan usually have a clear direction in which they are heading.
		Regardless of your firm’s size and whether you develop a formal strategic plan and/or operational plan year to year, it is valuable to know who you are as a business and where you are going in the long term.
		The firm’s attorneys will tell me that their law practice was not what they expected it to be.
	www.alpsnet.com /alps/Newsletter/PrintNewsletter.aspx?id=134 (996 words)

	Ideal Body Measurement Calculator
		Although classical art had been admired for centuries, there was a renewed interest in the "classical style" at the turn of the century (a similar fashion and trend occurred after the French revolution around the time of Napoleon, circa 1800).
		"My ideal is not the man with the huge, abnormal muscles of a Hercules; nor is it the lithe, slender form of an Apollo; nor the somewhat better-muscled Mercury.
		This "Grecian Ideal" runs 24 pages in Liederman's book, such was the influence of "classical proportion" in those days.
	www.sandowmuseum.com /ideal.html (537 words)

	Qualitative research and the generalizability question: Standing firm with Proteus
		Central to the qualitative paradigm is the belief that people assign meaning to the objective world, that their valued experiences are situated within a historical and social context, and that there can be multiple realities (Benoliel, 1984; Tesch, 1990).
		Its ideal use, he contends, is for adding to the body of existing knowledge.
		Because of the universality of experiential understanding and the compatibility of qualitative research with that understanding, the ideal is to add to the existing experience and humanistic understanding of the reader.
	www.nova.edu /ssss/QR/QR4-3/myers.html (3474 words)

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		Wilson (1980) investigated the perspectives of owners or managers of firms with fewer than twenty-five employees concerning their social responsibilities, recognizing that perspectives of such individuals may differ from those of executives in large corporations.
		The ethical viewpoints of those in the smallest firms (fewer than 100 employees) were found to be basically similar to those of respondents in the somewhat larger firms--those with 100 to 499 employees and 500 to 999 employees.
		The larger the firm, the more likely were respondents to show awareness of ethical codes in their firms.
	www.sbaer.uca.edu /research/icsb/1994/text/94ICS153.TXT (3121 words)

	Warner Angle Hallam Jackson & Formanek. Phoenix, Arizona Law Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The firm is active in many areas of civil practice, with an almost equal division between litigation and non-litigation matters.
		The firm represents some of the leading local and national builders and developers in virtually all areas of construction law, including, but not limited to, construction defect and delay disputes, lien and bond claims and public bid protests.
		The firm represents and advises communities owned and operated by local Arizona businesses and individuals as well as communities that are owned by out of state businesses and individuals who desire quality legal support, guidance and assistance for their local management.
	www.warnerangle.com /content.asp?page_id=29 (608 words)

	Adam Smith, Esq.: An inquiry into the economics of law firms....
		Firms poor at lateral recruiting often really don't know exactly what they want or why they want it; they'll take people because their specialty is in fashion or because they come across someone unhappy, but with a nice book of business.
		Each has its place in the life-cycle of a firm, and firms will want to position themselves at different points on the spectrum—never lose sight of the fact that it is a spectrum—as their internal and external competitive challenges evolve, but it's always a fascinating topic to recur to.
		One set of firms will cling to the "safety" of tradition, keeping associates in the dark, as the second-class citizens they are presumed to be, pointedly oblivious to "work/life" issues, letting the fungible young things sink or swim in the deep end of the pool they're being paid well to inhabit.
	www.bmacewen.com /blog/archives/compensation (9646 words)

	Week 2
		The interpretation of 'firm size' and 'market structure' hypotheses is uncertain, given the presence of different proxies for size and structure as well as for innovation (RandD inputs, patents etc.).
		It seems that there is an intermediate firm size that is the best compromise between the advantages of large and small firms, between "bigness wins" and "small is beautiful".
		The study found that there is a complex set of differences and similarities between firm size categories with very small firms being the most noticeably different from large firms.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /istp/units/s543/week_2.html (914 words)

	Cutting Edge:Product Development
		Each firm uses its own "ideal figure" to create patterns based on a fit model.
		So, one firm's size 6 could be another firm's size 10.
		This is especially true for the women's wear category, where some businesses label their clothing with smaller sizes than measurements warrant, often known as vanity sizes.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /Courses/cuttingedge/productDev/05prodDev.htm (147 words)

	'Lifetime earnings' in Japan for the class of 1955, (EXCERPT), Monthly Labor Review Online, April 1984
		Under such a system an individual becomes employed by a firm upon graduation, and remains in its employ until retirement some 33 or more years later.
		This is an idealized system which applies to perhaps 40 percent of the labor force, and with quite specific exceptions.
		An ideal analysis would be based upon individual income records and would be done once the age cohort had completed its life cycle of work and had withdrawn from the labor market.
	www.bls.gov /opub/mlr/1984/04/art4exc.htm (437 words)

	Unconfirmed Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Investors drove the firms stock to a 52 week high based on the souring of relations with Iran, Syria and North Korea.
		Planners indicate the facility will be similar, with a few exceptions to the standard hotel complexes the firm has been building around the United States.
		Because many of the long term guests are unlawful enemy combatants with no hope of trial or return to society the Gitmo "hotel" has been designed to accommodate their "special" needs.
	www.unconfirmedsources.com /nucleus/nucleus/plugins/print/print.php?itemid=1068 (350 words)

	Girard Gibbs LLP - About GG&D
		Since the firm was founded in 1995, we have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients.
		We feel that the firm's size is ideal to serve clients—large enough to fully staff the exigencies of cases, yet small enough to foster a team approach to cases, which in turn allows for an energetic interchange of ideas, ensuring the professional development of our young attorneys.
		Contrasted to a large firm with many practice areas, our structure allows for a much greater degree of independence and flexibility, allowing our attorneys to act quickly and decisively, providing the quality of representation necessary to litigate complex actions successfully throughout the country.
	www.girardgibbs.com /about.asp (319 words)

	International Attorneys
		The present law firm of Leefe, Gibbs Sullivan Dupré and Aldous was originally founded in 1986 and has evolved into today's firm practicing on both a domestic and international basis.
		The firm also has a staffed office in Salt Lake City, Utah and has established a reputation for responding aggressively in international matters and providing the attention needed to assure protection of the rights of our clients, while keeping in mind the need to minimize their costs.
		The firm has represented major oil companies, underwriters at Lloyds of London, businesses involved in import and export transactions to and from the United States, and other clients in their dealings with the international community.
	pages.prodigy.net /rleefe (2268 words)

	Resources and Links
		Abundance - offers you the opportunity to buy books and videotapes on size acceptance, resolving eating disorders and body image problems, self-help, personal growth, creativity, and healing from abuse and trauma that are reviewed and recommended by a psychologist with expertise in these areas.
		Abundance Magazine - We simply wish to provide a forum for people of size and their admirers to congregate, to socialize, to exchange ideas and beliefs, and to become familiar with what it is like on the other side of the fence.
		Council on Size and Weight Discrimination - The goal of the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination is to influence public opinion and policy in order to end discrimination based on prejudicial standards of body weight, size or shape.
	www.size-acceptance.org /links.html (1728 words)

	Lighter workload jobs?: Law Vault Message Board (Intellectual Property)
		As an example, I have a colleague that graduated from a top five law school, clerked for a federal judge, and is now happily practicing part-time at a small general practice firm in Long Island.
		You should also consider that practice area, almost as much as firm size and prestige, can dictate the hours you work.
		I would guess that, generally, the more a firm looks like a 9-to-5 outfit, the more mundane their practice.
	www.vault.com /messages/Law/Law50905.html (187 words)

	About the Firm - SettlePou - Attorneys and Counselors
		The firm has particular expertise in assisting banks and other financial institutions, asset management and recovery groups, insurance companies, entities with real estate interests and commercial businesses.
		Composed of over 25 skilled attorneys, as well as qualified support staff, the firm represents clients with an unusual brand of big-firm expertise coupled with small-firm attention.
		As a result, the firm's size and structure are ideal for serving clients efficiently and cost effectively in matters both large and small.
	www.settlepou.com /about_the_firm.html (209 words)

	Amazon.com: Futuro Therapeutic Support Knee High, Medium, Beige, Firm, Open Toe/Heel, 1 Stocking: Health & Personal Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ideal for everyday, especially when you are standing or sitting for long periods, walking or traveling.
		Ideal for every day, especially when you are standing or sitting for long periods, walking or traveling.
		Size Chart: Medium: Calf Measurement - 12-1/2 to 13-1/3-inch; Large: Calf Measurement - 13-3/4 to 14-3/4-inch; Extra Large: Calf Measurement - 15 to 16-inch.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000052XTP?v=glance (1037 words)

	Encyclopedia of Small Business - Op-Qu
		Optimal firm size refers to the speed and extent of growth that is ideal for a specific small business.
		Optimal firm size is dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.
		The organizational life cycle (OLC) is a model which proposes that over the course of time, business firms move through a fairly predictable sequence of developmental stages.
	www.referenceforbusiness.com /small/Op-Qu/index.html (2791 words)

	Marketing law firms, Internet marketing for attorneys, law firm marketing, attorney marketing
		This process includes meeting with individuals and/or groups within the firm to determine where to focus effort and resources into developmental growth.
		Ideal for an individual attorney within a firm looking to strengthen his or her own rainmaking and marketing efficiency.
		A plan is developed specific to your practice of law, firm size and/or geographic location.
	www.htmlawyers.com /services_a.php (191 words)

	René Descartes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The ancient Greek engineer Archimedes said 'give me a fulcrum and a firm point, and I alone can move the earth.' Analogously, Descartes believes that if he finds one indubitable truth, together with a means for employing it, then this will be the foundation of a true philosophical system.
		The 'firm point' is his existence: 'this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived by my mind' (II, 17).
		There is no need to begin again: a firm foundation, not only for the rational part of religion but also for science, has been uncovered.
	www.iep.utm.edu /d/descarte.htm (19639 words)

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