Firm Size Distribution in

Qinghua Chen; Liujun Chen; Kai Liu

Complex Sciences. First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009, Revised Papers, Part 2

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_54,
    author={Qinghua Chen and Liujun Chen and Kai Liu},
    title={Firm Size Distribution in 
            },
    proceedings={Complex Sciences. First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009, Revised Papers, Part 2},
    proceedings_a={COMPLEX PART 2},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={worldwide firm size distribution Fortune Global 500 lognormal distribution},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_54}
}

Qinghua Chen
Liujun Chen
Kai Liu
Year: 2012
Firm Size Distribution in
COMPLEX PART 2
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_54

Qinghua Chen¹^,*, Liujun Chen¹, Kai Liu¹

1: Beijing Normal University

*Contact email: qinghuachen@bnu.edu.cn

Abstract

By analyzing the data of Fortune Global 500 firms from 1996 to 2008, we found that their ranks and revenues always obey the same distribution, which implies that worldwide firm structure has been stable for a long time. The fitting results show that simple Zipf distribution is not an ideal model for global firms, while SCL, FSS have better fitting goodness, and lognormal fitting is the best. And then, we proposed a simple explanation.

Keywords: worldwide firm size distribution Fortune Global 500 lognormal distribution

Published: 2012-05-11

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_54

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