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100			_a"Scherer, F.M"
245		0	_aEconomics of multi-plant operation
260			_a"Cambridge, Mass"
260			_bHarward University Press
260			_c1975
300			_a448: ill
520			_aThis 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.
650			_a"Industries , Size of"
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