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Are Small Firms Really Sub-Optimal?: Compensating Factor Differentials in Small Dutch Manufacturing Firms

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  • Audretsch, D.B.
  • van Leeuwen, G.
  • Menkveld, B.
  • Thurik, R.

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The advent of a growing share of small firms in modern economies raises some intriguing questions. The most intriguing question undoubtedly is why so many smaller firms, which have traditionally been classified as sub-optimal scale firms, can exist. The authors suggest that, through pursuing a strategy of copmpensating factor differentials, that is by remunerating and deploying factors of production differently than their larger counterparts, small firms are able to compensate for inherent-siza cost disadvantages.

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  • Audretsch, D.B. & van Leeuwen, G. & Menkveld, B. & Thurik, R., 1999. "Are Small Firms Really Sub-Optimal?: Compensating Factor Differentials in Small Dutch Manufacturing Firms," Papers 9902/e, NEUHUYS - RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:miklrr:9902/e
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    1. Bechmann, Sebastian & Dahms, Vera & Fischer, Agnes & Frei, Marek & Leber, Ute & Möller, Iris, 2011. "Beschäftigung, Arbeit und Unternehmertum in deutschen Kleinbetrieben : Ergebnisse aus dem IAB-Betriebspanel 2010," IAB-Forschungsbericht 201107, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].

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    Keywords

    SIZE OF ENTERPRISE ; MANUFACTURES ; EFFICIENCY;
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    JEL classification:

    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
    • L21 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Business Objectives of the Firm
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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