Firms did not flourish until the early 20th century. They emerged as an authorized structure and were granted exclusive rights to trade and conduct business in certain markets and products. The fact that firms are a different way to organize economic activities cannot explain explicitly and adequately the reason of firm formation. Many socialists and economists have given their interpretations of the conditions under which firms emerged and developed in certain ways in a specialised exchange economy
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A. FIRM AND ITS OBJECTIVE: Conventional theory of firm assumes profit maximization is the sole objective of business firms. But recent researches on this issue reveal that the objectives the firms pursue are more than one. Some important objectives‚ other than profit maximization are: (a) Maximization of the sales revenue (b) Maximization of firm’s growth rate (c) Maximization of Managers utility function (d) Making satisfactory rate of Profit (e) Long run Survival of the firm (f) Entry-prevention
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Short Essay on Coase’s article: “The Nature of the Firm” Coase’s article “The Nature of the Firm” provides a set of answers to important questions such as “Why do firms exist?” “What characterizes firms?” and “What determines their scale and scope?” According to Coase‚ a firm has to find the most cheap‚ most productive goods and services by establishing contracts in an open‚ efficient market place. However‚ market places are not that pure to let firms to succeed in their needs; they are not fluid. This
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Analysis of Bolaven Farm: Strength: Cheap labor‚ business with social cause‚ premium grade coffee‚ organic certified coffee‚ 75% of people are farmers Weakness: The business is oligopoly. So‚ it’s difficult to create the market‚ lack of farming skills‚ corruption in Laos‚ starting a brand from scratch‚ local market Opportunity: Market growth of coffee is huge (yearly average 90%)‚ can venture in Europe and America‚ can take over roasters and have larger share of profit‚ establish itself as unique premium
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productive and 10 times more costly. Question2 A competitive firm sells its product at a price of $0.10 per unit. Its total and marginal cost functions are: TC = 5 - 0.5*Q + 0.001*Q2 MC = -0.5 + 0.002*Q‚ where TC is total cost ($) and Q is output rate (units per time period). (a) Determine the output rate that maximizes profit or minimizes losses in the short-term. R=P*Q=0.10*Q MR=0.10 MC=-0.5+0.002Q=0.10=MR ; 0.002Q=0.6 ; Q=300 (b) If input prices increase and cause the cost functions
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services” (Tracy)1. These businesspeople help build our economy by creating jobs‚ increasing productivity and partnering with other firms to help reach success. Entrepreneurship is so crucial to society because “it’s the entrepreneurs who serve as the spark plug in the economy’s engine‚ activating and stimulating all economic activity…” (Tracy)1. Entrepreneurial firms highly impact the economy by creating jobs‚ which is essential in fueling our economy. When an entrepreneur begins to expand their
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Movie: The Firm Sydney Pollack’s film The Firm is a drama based on an desire to escape from the law firm (Berndini‚ Lambert‚ and Lock) from which he was hired. The relatively small but wealthy firm wines and dines the ambitious Harvard Law Graduate’s (played by Tom Cruise) with money and gifts in order to make him part of their team. Overwhelmed by the gracious treatment and substantial offer Mitch McDeere takes the offer to be part of the Firm. The firm gets them caught up in a affluent lifestyle
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[NOVEMBER The Nature of the Firm By R. H. COASE ECONOMIC theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is‚ however‚ essential not only to prevent the misunderstanding and needless controversy which arise from a lack of knowledge of the assumptions on which a theory is based‚ but also because of the extreme importance for economics of
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of the Firm The firm’s goal is to maximize profits‚ !. In order to do this it must decide what quantity of a good to produce given costs‚ technology and demand. A competitive firm is assumed to be able to sell as much as it wants at the market price without affecting price. So it takes price as exogenous (beyond it’s control) and does not worry about demand. In addition‚ for our purpose we’ll assume the firm operates efficiently‚ that is‚ whatever the level of production that the firm chooses
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