Firm internal factors in pune
Firm
internal factors may relate to expansion or to the changing character of the
production process. This may result in a different combination of factor
inputs, and in trun to changing spatial margins to profitability. Assuming that
location costs and revenues change over time we find that most existing do not
occupy packers and movers pune the optimal profit maximizing location.
Nakosteen and Zimmer 1987
provide a theoretical framework in which firm continuously monitor their
profits relative to a fixed target threshold. As long as the firm exceeds this
profit rate or in other words is within the margins to profitability the firm
will most likely stay at the present location and will not try to move to the
optimal location for three reasons.
First
there may be significant relocation costs. Relocation costs markets labor
suppliers and deliverers etc. a move to another movers and packers pune geographical market is to a
certain extent similar to a start- up with large investments and uncertain
revenues. However these types of indirect costs are generally disregarded in
the simple neo- classical framework with its emphasis of full information and
rational behavior. Second there may be a substantial amount of capital inertia Auty
1975.
For instance in many cases existing buildings and other equipment at the
old location may already be written off and still be operational at low costs.
The firm is therefore able to make a profit at a sub- optimal location where a
new firm would not be able to make a profit. Third the cost or revenue
elasticity of any of the location factors is in general low which means that
the cost- and revenue surfaces are rather flat. In other words locational
choice is often not a decisive factor in determining profit or loss. The firm
may choose between many sites that are almost equally profitable.
Only when at
another location the profits are much higher the firm may decide to relocate in
spite of the fact that also at the present location they make a profit.
The
other possible outcome of the monitoring may be that due to the changing shape
of the cost- and revenue surfaces the current location is no longer inside the
spatial margins to profitability. Than adjustments are necessary otherwise the
firm will fail. Besides other adjustments, spatial adjustments may be able to
solve this problem. One of the most common forms of internal change of the firm
is growth which is often driven by process innovation and resulting economies
of scale.
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