Economics of multi-plant operation

By:

"Scherer, F.M"

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: "Cambridge, Mass"; Harward University Press; 1975Description: 448: illISBN:

674233409

Subject(s):

"Industries , Size of"

DDC classification:

338.7 SCH

Summary: This book is our response to a puzzle first idntified by Joe S. Bain. In 1996 Bain published a comparative study of plant sizes, plant concentration, and leading company concentration covering eight nations. One prominent finding was that the average size (measured in employment terms) of the largest plants outside the United States was considerably smaller than the size of plants in comparable U.S. industries. Letting average employment in the largest 20 U.S. plants of any given industry by indexed at 100, Bain derived the following median relative plant size indices for his eight nation sample.

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This book is our response to a puzzle first idntified by Joe S. Bain. In 1996 Bain published a comparative study of plant sizes, plant concentration, and leading company concentration covering eight nations. One prominent finding was that the average size (measured in employment terms) of the largest plants outside the United States was considerably smaller than the size of plants in comparable U.S. industries. Letting average employment in the largest 20 U.S. plants of any given industry by indexed at 100, Bain derived the following median relative plant size indices for his eight nation sample.

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