Hotels should be looking for a more value-added strategy proposition --
internal economies of scale or tactical pricing for third-party partners such as OTAs, for example.
* Considering a move from a management agreement to a franchise (especially if they have three or more properties and can benefit from
internal economies of scale).
Each business is striving for so-called
internal economies of scale. On the other hand, more competition may be beneficial for all competitors in an industry if it attracts external players which help to grow the entire industry.
For example, India's Second Five Year Plan (1956-61) was an attempt in planned industrialization using
internal economies of scale rather than trade.
This would allow
internal economies of scale, bulk purchasing and the Euro Atlantic Navy could afford expensive kit, Trident and aircraft carriers.
Many of Rick Justis's contacts cite the classic reasons for outsourcing: Facilities management simply isn't a college's core business--or the task is complicated, changing often, and officials can't leverage their
internal economies of scale to keep up.
Internal economies of scale to the firm can lead to imperfectly competitive markets which, by definition, fail to generate economic efficiency--the market price is always above marginal cost when the firm's demand curve is down-sloping.
When they combine significant investments in technology with skills, value proposition and detailed understanding of customers, small companies can raise
internal economies of scale in a targeted part of the value chain and reduce transaction costs to match bigger competitors.
While this may be interpreted as evidence of information's external effects, it probably captures both the external and internal effects, since total home sales are likely to affect an individual lender's ability to exploit
internal economies of scale, as well as the amount of information available to all lenders in the neighborhood.