Intuitively one would expect that there are reasons why companies cannot be larger than a certain size (to exaggerate, none can be larger than the global econom

Intuitively one would expect that there are reasons why companies cannot be larger than a certain size (to exaggerate, none can be larger than the global economy). As companies approach their theoretical maximum, one would expect the distribution to deviate from the power law, as the actual data in the article demonstrates.