The Competitiveness of Small Firms (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers)

The Competitiveness of Small Firms & the Economies of Scale analyzes the practical sources of competitiveness of more than one hundred small firms in the computer, machinery, building, electrical & electronics, instruments, chemicals & food industries. The competition faced by the small firms, the sources of their competitiveness, the handicaps they encounter when competing with larger firms & the effects on their costs of increasing their output are described. The book provides proprietors of existing small firms & those planning to set up small firms in the manufacturing industry with detailed information about competitiveness. Completion of the internal EEC market is seen as a way of increasing the competitiveness of European firms with American & Japanese firms.Clifford Frederick Pratten is the author of 'The Competitiveness of Small Firms (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers)' with ISBN 9780521400350 and ISBN 052140035X.