Take a deeper look into diseconomies of scale, the economic phenomenon that can make companies less efficient as they become too large.

Investors can evaluate economies of scale to determine if a company can increase profitability and stay competitive as it ...

A new report by economists at USDA’s Economic Research Service explains how the meatpacking industry became concentrated among a few companies and its effects on market power. Concentration and ...

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Data centers in 2023: How to do more with less. The data center is the bedrock of the insight economy. To be competitive, ...

The economic principle of economies of scale is based on the simple concept that, when it comes to productivity, bigger is generally better – or at least more efficient. The principle is most ...

The ability to achieve economies of scale is the foundation of much of the world’s modern wealth. In the original Ford Motor factory in Detroit, the company managed to gradually take the time required ...

When Software as a Service (SaaS) products scale, it might be tempting to think that traditional unit economics rules no longer apply. Expectations of economies of scale further fuel this notion. Yet, ...

The fiscal benefits the Army and all military services realize in exercising economies of scale to stockpile prepositioned war reserve materiel (PWRM), Army prepositioned stocks (APS), and munitions ...