The competitiveness of small firms Book

The Competitiveness of Small Firms and the Economies of Scale analyzes the practical sources of competitiveness of more than one hundred small firms in the computer, machinery, building, electrical and electronics, instruments, chemicals and food industries. The competition faced by the small firms, the sources of their competitiveness, the handicaps they encounter when competing with larger firms and the effects on their costs of increasing their output are described. The book provides proprietors of existing small firms and 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 and Japanese firms.