Abstract
As mentioned in Chapter 4, the Census of Production reveals that for manufacturing companies of all sizes the cost of purchases in 1981 was 4.2 times greater than the wages paid to operatives, and 3.7 times greater than the wages and salaries paid to employees.
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Hill, T. (1987). Purchasing. In: Small Business. Macmillan Small Business Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18691-4_9
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