The Analysis Of Enterprise Scale And Restricting Factors In China

The enterprise scale restricting factors is a classical topic and a frontier in economics and management science. Firstly, it is a realistic problem. In the case of enterprise management, every entrepreneur is sure to concern himself with this issue: "how large scale is the best". On the other hand, in terms of national economy and its competition, it is also noticeable. That is why the topic of "the world 500 strongest enterprises" is always attractive. Secondly, dissatisfying answers to this problem in the existing economic theories and various loopholes in theories stimulate economists to study this problem. And last, also most importantly, this problem involves the deep level of economic theories. As for economics, whether it can give reasonable explanations to enterprise scale as well as its changing law has become one of the most difficult problems to examine the scientific nature of its basic theories. The importance of this paper lies in both theoretical and practical aspects.In the past over 100 years, economists have made great efforts to probe into the problem of enterprise scale and accomplished great theoretical achievements. In the previous researches, however, economists did not analyze the factors directly affecting the change of enterprise scale, but just put a high premium on the enterprise nature, its scale benefit and scale boundary. Nevertheless, in order to make rational decisions on the enterprise scale, entrepreneurs have to consider the following questions carefully. What factors have direct effect on the enterprise scale? What measures should enterprises and the government take if the scale is adjusted to improving the competitive capacities of the enterprise? According to the objective conditions of our country, this paper analyzes and explores these questions by combining theory with positive evidences.This paper has explored the former studies of enterprise scale and summarized the existing theories such as scale determinism of embryonic enterprises, of completely-contracted enterprises, of incompletely-contracted enterprises and determinism of public administration from three dimensions: whether to differentiate enterprise from market explicitly; whether the contract is complete or not; whether to...