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Production and Administration Cost in Relation to Size of Firm
Author(s) -
Melman Seymour
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985439
Subject(s) - administration (probate law) , relation (database) , production (economics) , business , economics , computer science , microeconomics , political science , data mining , law
Professor Melman examines some data for US manufacturing industry and finds that at given times production costs per dollar of sales did not vary, on the average, with the size of the firm, and that administration costs per dollar of sales were less for larger firms. The significance of these results is discussed.