What Are the Key Factors That Determine the Profitability of a Firm

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Essay

What are the key factors that determine the profitability of a firm in a monopolistically competitive market?

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Definitions:

Limiting Resource

A resource in an ecosystem that restricts the growth, abundance, or distribution of organisms or populations due to its scarcity.

Niches

Refers to the specific role or position an organism or species has within its environment, including all biotic and abiotic factors affecting it.

Compete

The act of striving against others for the purpose of achieving dominance, superiority, or an award.

Coevolve

The process by which two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through natural selection.