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Maximum possible profitable firm

A firm possessing important market power may suffer by managerial slack [X-inefficiency] and unessential high costs, which implies that, the firm: (i) is likely to be absorbed through a predatory rival. (ii) realizes less than the maximum possible profit. (iii) is likely to aggressively try to acquire other firms. (iv) is protected from competition through strategic barriers to entry. (v) will suffer economic losses due to asymmetric information.

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