Smaller enterprises exist, but are typically retail or service establishments with one or only a few employees. Firms get to be large by exploiting economies of scale, refining and mass producing the radical innovations developed by entrepreneurs (discussed next).

Economies of scale and other factors are also important.

As firms consolidate market share, they gain economies of scale.

In some cases, this would also allow for economies of scale.

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

Achieving economies of scale and lessening environmental impacts simply are not priorities.

The first option would enable producers everywhere to take advantage of economies of scale.

The EU budget leverages investment, allows for economies of scale, and cannot run a deficit.

It is difficult to overstate the dependence of modern economies on large scale computer systems.

Scale economies in training, procurement and operation and maintenance are key attractions of this approach.

National defense is an obvious example, as are functions for which economies of scale are important.

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

To do so rigidly would lead to duplication of work, inefficiencies and loss of economies of scale.

As market shares increase, steady progress in lowering costs can be expected to continue through economies of scale.

What is astonishing about companies is that they scale sublinearly like biology, indicating that they're dominated, not by super linear innovation and ideas they become dominated by economies of scale.

These large scale changes will have to be coordinated, at least informally if not tightly, among the major economies.

Moreover, reducing trade barriers between these countries is essential for taking advantage of regional synergies and economies of scale.

Understanding and exploiting gender norms offers commercial benefits.

Or consider Iran, another power exploiting American weakness.

The dismantling of the EU s internal borders boosted each country s market size and brought about the predicted economies of scale.

The economies of the developing countries are deteriorating and, in some cases, their citizens are becoming pauperized on a broad scale.

Small island developing States have open, small scale economies with limited resources, and are highly dependent on external markets and resources.

The development of policy consensus among developing countries at the regional level might facilitate their diffusion by creating economies of scale.

In Europe, clusters of SMEs appear able to achieve economies of scale and scope, and thus to succeed collectively in global markets.

This is a compromise aimed at minimizing the incentive to gamble with public insurance while allowing some economies of scale for banking activities.

The retail sector is characterized by economies of scale and scope as well as vertical integration and the existence of large retail chains.

But exploiting history to justify current violence will not work forever.

We see terrorists and organized criminals exploiting a more open world.

But the EU can add considerable value by coordinating transnational infrastructure projects, thereby achieving economies of scale and avoiding a duplication of national spending.

But, because indirect taxes are more easily avoided by operating many small units instead of one large unit, economies of scale cannot be realized.

They include increased competitiveness of firms, knowledge and technology acquisition, market expansion abroad and increased profitability, including as a result of economies of scale.

(j) The trends in UNOPS portfolio development illustrate that full cost recovery is best assured from large, complex portfolios that achieve economies of scale.

Political leaders everywhere in the Balkans are adept at exploiting such divisions.

There were economies of scale and scope, and financial firms typically like the idea of a one stop (or, at worst, a two stop) shop.

The objective in establishing the United Nations Office at Nairobi was to strengthen the United Nations presence in Nairobi and to achieve economies of scale.

In the process of multilateral trade liberalization, small and vulnerable economies such as Mauritius were faced with many challenges, ranging from natural imbalances to trade disadvantages, such as supply capacity constraints and the inability to achieve economies of scale.

Given their size and relative isolation, they are unable to achieve economies of scale or enter national and global value chains driven by large transnational corporations.

These can greatly enhance their productivity and growth potential if they network with other firms to address common problems and achieve economies of scale and scope.

Workers that have migrated to richer countries send home financial remittances that can temporarily supplement the income generated by our national economies but that, in the long term, prevent us from exploiting our most important asset our most highly qualified human resources.

So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.

In particular, public ownership of land harms the investment incentives for family farms and reduces their chance of consolidating land holdings in order to exploit economies of scale.

Some big businesses in privileged positions would make a fortune from exploiting this rather rigged market.

He also said there is video evidence of Rafsanjani's son, Mehdi, sexually exploiting his female employees.

And, at least until a certain stage of growth, economies of scale and scope beckon, with expansion abroad often the only way to increase size, given already saturated domestic markets.

Together, these companies invented mail order as the killer app of the railroad age, creating a continental market for consumer goods, with all of the economies of scale that followed.