But there are not many examples of a firm of any scale surviving for long by selling truly independent research.
Businesses of this sort account for around a third of jobs and private-sector GDP, have a manufacturing and export bent (though less so in Britain) and combine the benefits of small-firm flexibility with large-firm economies of scale.
The firm's huge scale and its massively popular website, which it will use to promote the Kindle Fire, give it an edge.
The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.
Despite the firm's admission, the scale of the case against Morgan Stanley remains unclear.
The combined firm will have greater economies of scale and more bargaining power with handset and equipment suppliers.
When you run a business at this level of scale as a brokerage firm, you have to clear and settle every trade yourself.
The proposed facility at Pendine would be to rear young ragworms on a far greater scale - allowing the firm to expand into the shrimp and prawn feed sector.
As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.
As an owner of a small regional brokerage firm I can report from the front lines that a primary driver of the demise of the local brokerage firm is a lack of economies of scale to remain competitive.
Earlier this year, the firm won permission for a similarly large-scale fish farm on Loch Torridon in the north-west Highlands.
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Northern Ireland Finance Minister Sammy Wilson, who is also the MP for East Antrim, said he was shocked at the scale of the redundancies at the firm.
Stephanie Gallo says her family's firm can profitably mine both ends of the price scale.
If it worked, Vertex would have a huge lead in kinase-blockers, but the firm lacked the money to mount a large-scale program alone.
Dealing with a larger and more intrusive government is another example where scale economies can justify a larger sized firm to support these costs.
Australian Oil and Gas pumps oil in Libya, while logistics firm Korea Express is taking over a large-scale water project in the North African country.
That is partly a question of scale: one lucky break by a smaller firm could double its reserves, but barely register at one of the majors.
But it will also strike some as faintly obscene given the scale of public support needed to keep the firm and its peers from buckling last year.
But in a letter to domestic electrical good retailers the Commission has said it was unlikely to find that the Dixons Group was operating a 'scale' monopoly in the sale of warranties as the firm had slightly less than 25% market share.
In an industry in which economies of scale have been a big factor, size should give the bigger firm an advantage.
Wave Hub Limited, which was created by the government to operate the device, said it was "delighted" Irish firm Ocean Energy Ltd (OEL) was expected to deploy a full-scale device at the hub.
One potential bidder said that lack of synergy and scale would be difficult to overcome for a private equity investor like his firm.
The firm expects gross margins to "improve strongly" during 2013, as Mems production reaches economic scale.
Lefkofsky announced in a blog post Monday that he plans to scale back his duties at the deal-finding web company to focus more on his venture capital firm, Lightbank LLC.
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