Research Summary: Firm size has long been recognized as a source of competitive advantage. However, the disruptions … arising from the knowledge-based global economy are decoupling the link between firm size and profitability. We demonstrate in … disconnect in the relationships between firm size, growth, and financial performance across multiple industries with a long …

business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall … effects of firm size on TFP growth are negative. …

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise … consequence of the fact that there are some MSMEs which are growing and moving up the size distribution. This suggests that for …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this … relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still …

within the Western German manufacturing sector or not. The underlying assumption is that size of a firm has no influence on … Chesher (1979) is used to explore 'Gibrat's law' in order to examine the influence of firm size on growth. Moreover we test …

, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist …

We use establishment-level data from Indian manufacturing to describe the distribution of firm size in terms of … establishment-level data from both the registered (formal) and unregistered (informal) components of the Indian manufacturing sector …. We also examine how the distribution of firm size varies across states coded by recent literature as having either …

We use establishment-level data from Indian manufacturing to describe the distribution of firm size in terms of … establishment-level data from both the registered (formal) and unregistered (informal) components of the Indian manufacturing sector …. We also examine how the distribution of firm size varies across states coded by recent literature as having either …

. This paper argues that the size of firms and the reaction-adjustment period are important conditions missed in this … literature. I illustrate the effects of this omission using data from the Spanish manufacturing industries between 1994 and 2001 …

low-wage countries, and the size distribution of exporters, skewed towards small firms. Since 2010 signs of structural …