Does the Firm Size Matter? An Empirical Enquiry into the Performance of Indian Manufacturing Firms
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Keywords
Gibrat’s law; firm size; profitability; Tobin’s Q; manufacturing firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2009-05-23 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CSE-2009-05-23 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-CWA-2009-05-23 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-EFF-2009-05-23 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENT-2009-05-23 (Entrepreneurship)
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