The question of the firm. Organizational forms and dimensions
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Keywords
Theories of the firm; Radical uncertainty; Dynamic competition process; The question of optimization; Size of the firm; Dimensional boundaries;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- P0 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - General
- Z00 - Other Special Topics - - General - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2016-10-16 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-ENT-2016-10-16 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HME-2016-10-16 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
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