But what if this decline is a characteristic of corporate size rather than an economic trend?
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We measure corporate size using four measures--sales, market value, assets and profits--to produce a composite measure of bigness.
This humanization works, because someone wrote each sign by hand, and it makes consumers think about the supermarket more in terms of its employees than its large corporate size.
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Different corporate-headquarters size partly reflects different market structure.
Thirdly the collapses led not merely to better financial regulation but, more importantly, to a corporate focus on profitability over size and market share.
Most notably, the government is scrapping local corporate taxes that depend on the size of a firm's payroll immediately for 70% of firms, over five years for the rest.
Here are three examples of U.S. businesses leading in corporate responsibility in ways appropriate to their size and means.
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Having fallen behind Delta and United in network size, American has lost corporate accounts and business-travel loyalty one of the factors that led to its bankruptcy reorganization.
What he opened in January 2012 is a super-upscale jet emporium complete with a full-size cabin mockup of an Airbus Corporate Jet and an array of technology to allow private jet newbies to personally select their new ride.
Another issue of size is this: having a large corporate organization creates communication inefficiencies that make it almost impossible to address the needs of each local community effectively in spite of all good intentions.
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It would be better and more efficient to reduce corporate taxes and capital gains taxes altogether without regard to size.
It sports the nicest corporate campus I've ever seen, with an Olympic-size swimming pool, child-care centers and a 35-hour workweek.
Corporate computing started out highly centralized on mainframes and other room-size machines, but since the introduction of the PC has been going through swings between the autonomy of the individual computer user and centralized management by the IT department.
Half a dozen well-funded shops lead the charge in supplying small and mid-size businesses with fancy digital features that once were available only to rich corporate titans--videoconferencing, always-on Internet access, web hosting and more.
It is not something that fits with the giant corporate mentality that tends to grow more and more restrictive and ossified as companies increase in size.
Reducing the size and scope of government, lowering taxes on labor and capital, ending corporate welfare, lowering the costs of doing business, and safeguarding freedom of contract are the best practices necessary for a harmonious society and future prosperity.
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While there was a time when these allegations could cripple a brand regardless of its reputation or size, major corporations seem increasingly immune to damning news, quickly bouncing back from corporate debacles with shockingly little long-term damage to their brand and the bottom line.
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"Just about every company of every size is doing something, " Curt Weeden of Contributions Academy, which trains managers of corporate philanthropy programs, told The Associated Press.
His company, which recycles smart phones for corporate clients, is on pace to add 25 people each quarter of 2012, nearly doubling the size of its 2011 payroll.
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Nor does it require similarity of size: mergers of equals seem to be especially tricky, perhaps because they disrupt two strong corporate cultures, and they often throw up intractable problems of leadership.
Below the flashy corporate logo is information about the registration of the equity security, including ticker symbol, class of offering, size of the offering and expected price.
Although ISS claims that it covers more than 40, 000 stockholder meetings for its clients, it has decided that it lives in a one-size only world when it recommends how its clients should vote on stockholder proposals with respect to disclosure of corporate political contributions.
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