small is beautiful

Posted by william on Fri Nov 6 21:30:08 1998

Very nice survey of Taiwan in this week's Economist,
suggesting small firms which are basically contractors
to each other lead to exceptionally resilient economy,
flexibility outweighing any loss of scale-savings.

Taiwan has one limited company per eighteen people!

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    >Very nice survey of Taiwan in this week's Economist, >suggesting small firms which are basically contractors >to each other lead to exceptionally resilient economy, >flexibility outweighing any loss of scale-savings. >Taiwan has one limited company per eighteen people!

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