What does enterprise mean?

A legal entity engaged in production, purchase and sale, transportation and service activities. Such as companies, factories, mines, farms, shops, etc. And "career".

In the category of commodity economy, as one of the various modes of organizational unit, according to certain organizational rules, an organic economic entity generally aims at profit, maximizing the interests of investors, customers, employees and the public, and exchanging income by providing products or services.

It is the product of social development, and develops with the development of social division of labor. Enterprises are the main body of market economic activities; Under the socialist economic system, the coexistence of various enterprises constitutes the micro-foundation of the socialist market economy.

Enterprises have three basic organizational forms: sole proprietorship, partnership and company, and corporate enterprise is the most important and typical organizational form in modern enterprises.

Extended data

1, wholly-owned enterprise

A wholly-owned enterprise refers to an enterprise that is operated, owned and controlled by an individual, bears operational risks and enjoys all operational benefits. Natural person enterprise. The oldest and simplest enterprise organization form. Mainly prevalent in retail, handicrafts, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, service industry and family workshops.

2. Partnership enterprises

A partnership enterprise refers to an enterprise organization form in which natural persons, legal persons and other organizations are established in China in accordance with the Partnership Enterprise Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), and two or more natural persons enter into a partnership agreement, * * * jointly contribute to the operation, * * * assume sole responsibility for profits and losses, and * * * bear risks.

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