Firms versus Plants: a Closer Examination of their Different Behaviour in the Face of Structural Change

Fabrizio Traù
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Fabrizio Traù: Research Department of the Confederation of Italian Industries

Chapter 5 in Structural Macroeconomic Change and the Size Pattern of Manufacturing Firms, 2003, pp 102-118 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 5.1.1 In principle, the division of labour may take place both inside the firm and among firms. In fact, this passage from one of these two different ways of organizing productive activity to the other is exactly the process that industrial countries have experienced in the course of the two different phases of post-war industrial development that we have dealt with in previous chapters. As we have argued in particular in chapter 2, this passage is precisely what economic theory should be able to explain: that is, why in different external contexts firms opt for different organizational structures.

Keywords: Firm Size; Large Firm; Business Unit; Previous Chapter; Employment Share (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403943958_6

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