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Economy of Scale

Diseconomies of Scale

April 5, 2021April 30, 2019 by Christoph Roser

The economy of scale is well known. The larger a company gets, the more efficient it becomes. However, this trend does not go on indefinitely, and eventually turns into a diseconomy of scale. In this post I will look at the diseconomies of scale, and also the very related Parkinson’s Law.

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