On size and growth of business firms
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On size and growth of business firms
We study size and growth distributions of products and business firms in the context of a given industry. Firm size growth is analyzed in terms of two basic mechanisms, i.e. the increase of the number of new elementary business units and their size growth. We find a power-law relationship between size and the variance of growth rates for both firms and products, with an exponent between -0.17 a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(03)00043-8