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Do big companies face the same calculation problem as planned economies?

Considering there are many huge companies (Walmart, Amazon) that manage an amount of resources comparable with many small countries or states, do this companies face the same calculation problem that Mises and Hayek proposed, as planned economies?

I know that this big companies work within the context of a market, but so do countries who do (or did) central planning. I'm guessing that big companies with big supply chain ought to do the same. How do they solve this problem?

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Yes they do. Equally there are big costs in going to a market. This includes the mechanical process of going to a market like having a money float, giving receipts and so on, but also things like advertising, legal for contracts and so on. So it is best to think of the boundaries of the firm as being where the diseconomies of a firm outweigh the diseconomies of a market. Beyond it you are best going though a market, below it you are best through organisation. Differences are particularly noticeable between industries - for example oil has many large vertically integrated firms and very few if any one man firms, in other industries it can be the other way round.

This is sometimes referred to as the Theory of the Firm in economics and economists such as Coase contributed to it.