• DocumentCode
    1164800
  • Title

    Is bigger always better? [company size optimisation]

  • Author

    Nies, Tom

  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    27
  • Abstract
    In business, growth is a key aim with growth strategies and five-year growth plans required by everybody from investors to staff. This article asks the question whether growth should always be pursued. It argues that there is a size beyond which an organization becomes less efficient and that government should stimulate the faster growth of mid- to intermediate-sized firms. It puts forward a method to do this by creating a progressive rate schedule of corporate profit taxes which would minimise profit taxes during the stage where small to intermediate businesses are growing into becoming large firms. It suggests that this would be a way to help revitalise the Western economy.
  • Keywords
    government policies; small-to-medium enterprises; taxation; business growth; company size optimisation; corporate profit taxes; growth plans; intermediate-sized firms; mid-sized firms; progressive tax rate schedule;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering Management Journal
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0960-7919
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/em:20050406
  • Filename
    1507611