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Published online 7 September 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010913-2
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Firm size matters
The corporations that attract and retain productive workers grow while others collapse
Economists assume all firms aim to maximize their profits. But the largest and longest-lived companies are not necessarily the most acquisitive, a new mathematical model suggests.
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