What is the difference between a company and a factory?

1, the difference in meaning

The company is established in China in accordance with the company law is a profit-oriented enterprise legal person. Is adapted to the needs of the market economy, socialized mass production and the formation of a form of business organization.

Factories are a class of large industrial buildings for the production of goods, modern factories are also known as "manufacturing plants", "production enterprises".

2, the management of the difference

Companies, especially joint-stock companies can be publicly issued shares, bonds, in the community to raise funds, to facilitate the establishment of large-scale enterprises; the company to implement the principle of complete separation of ownership and management; the company's unique form of organization and structure of the company's capital, business operation tends to maximize the interests of the investor's purpose to achieve a better realization; the company's shape Completely detached from the individual color, is a permanent union of capital.

The production process in factories has a very high demand for management techniques, which has given rise to many management theories. Generally speaking, factory management involves the hierarchical management of low, middle, and high skilled workers, as well as supervisors and managers, with the human being at the center.

3, the difference in the type of business

Corporation is a type of business company set up in accordance with the "People's Republic of China **** and the State Company Law". The company is an internationally popular form of business organization, China's legal recognition of the form of the company has a limited liability company and joint-stock limited company.

Factories belong to the production-oriented enterprises, not among the types of enterprises recognized by our laws.

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