Business GCSE
Optimum scale
What Optimum scale means in Business GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Optimum scale
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Reference: AQA
The scale beyond which diseconomies set in, so that unit costs rise rather than fall.
Topics that use Optimum scale
- Expanding a business (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Diseconomies of scale
- Economies of scale
- External growth
- Fixed Costs
- Franchising
- Horizontal, vertical and conglomerate integration
- Internal (organic) growth
- Internal and external factors
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