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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

Firms do this mainly by searching for companies with similar profiles, and benchmarking prices against those used in the broader market. However, this is often difficult to do since there may be no comparable companies selling similar types of products. A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. Intellectual capital.