ECONOMIES OF SCALE
Economies of scale refers to the situation when a firm
increases his output in the long run his output per unit cost will decrease.it
is called Economic of scale.
Type of economies –
1) Internal economies of scale – because of the internal management cost of
production reduces.
Example – bulk buying is an example of internal economies
2) External economies of scale - Cost reduces due to whole industry grow in
size.it get benefit to all the people.
Example –
a) GST for a company
effected to whole company.
b) if a company starts
in tax free business countries is an example of external economic of scale.
My own experience in Economies of scale concept
One day I was thinking to buy some goods from online site Flipkart.
the price of one product was rupee 1000 and the delivery charge was rupee 70.
but I was used to buy some other products also. so my total cost of products
was rupee 5000 but the delivery charged was still rupee 70. because I bought in
bulk so my per unit cost of goods decreased.so their products cost was variable
cost and delivery charged was fixed cost.
So now we can say when I increased output my per unit cost
started decrease.
If we will think about firm, then also when they start buy
something in bulk their per unit cost will decrease.