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Business: An Organizational Entity

By: Robert Thomson

In finances, a business also called firm or enterprise is a officially recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers or mutual entities such as governments, charities or other businesses. Businesses are predominant in entrepreneur economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit to increase the wealth of owners. The etymology of "business" relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and lucrative work. The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage (above) to mean a particular company or corporation, the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as "the music business" and compound forms such as agribusiness, or the broadest meaning to include all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services. However, the exact definition of business, like much else in the beliefs of business, is a matter of debate.
Business Studies, the study of the management of individuals organizing to maintain collective output toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals (usually to generate profit), is taught as an theortical subject in many schools.
Basic forms of ownership

Sole proprietorship: A business possess by one person. The owner may operate on his or her own or may employ others. The owner of the business has total and limitless personal liability of the debts incurred by the business.

Partnership: A form of business in which two or more people operate for the common objective of making profit. Each partner has total and limitless personal liability of the amount overdue incurred by the partnership. There are three sorting of partnerships: general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships.

Corporation: A business corporation is a for-profit, limited problem entity that has a separate legal personality from its members. A corporation is owned by multiple shareholders and is overseen by a board of directors, which hires the business's managerial employees.

Cooperative: A cooperative is a for-profit, limited liability entity, differs from a corporation in that it has members, as divergent to shareholders, who share decision-making power. Cooperatives are classified as either consumer cooperatives or worker cooperatives.



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