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Growth and Profitability: - Growth and A Firm's Long-Run Average Costs
Growth and Profitability: - Growth and A Firm's Long-Run Average Costs
• Managerial conditions
– management structure
Alternative Growth Strategies
• Growth by internal expansion
– product differentiation
– vertical integration
– diversification
GROWTH OF A FIRM
– reduced uncertainty
– monopoly power
– barriers to entry
Growth through Vertical Integration
– consortia
– franchising
– licensing
– subcontracting
– networks
Growth through Strategic Alliance
– risk sharing
– capital pooling