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Organizational economics is primarily concerned with the obstacles to coordination of activities inside and between organizations (firms, alliances, institutions, and market as a whole). Organizational economics is known for its contribution to and its use of:
One of the 17,000 workers at the Kombinat Robotron in the German Democratic Republic in 1987 working to produce typewriters. Combine (Russian: Комбинат, romanized: Kombinat) is a term for industrial business groups, conglomerates or trusts in the former socialist countries.
There are generally five major types of cooperative organizations: Consumers' cooperatives, in which the consumers of a co-operative's goods and services are defined as its members (including retail food co-operatives and grocery stores, credit unions, mutual insurance companies, etc.) (Example: REI, federal credit unions, etc.)
Franchising in the United States is widespread and is a major economic powerhouse. One out of twelve retail businesses in the United States are franchised and 8 million people are employed in a franchised business. [12] Company limited by guarantee is commonly used where companies are formed for non-commercial purposes, such as clubs or charities.
Organizational capital is one of the three components of structural capital, itself a component of intellectual capital. [2] But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to measure it, or how to best quantify its contribution to output (either current or future).
A privately owned enterprise is a commercial enterprise owned by private investors, shareholders or owners (usually collectively, but they can be owned by a single individual), and is in contrast to state institutions, such as publicly owned enterprises and government agencies. Private enterprises comprise the private sector of an economy.
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
Almost any type of organization or unit in society can be an economic entity. Examples of economic entities in accounting are hospitals, companies, municipalities, and federal agencies. The "Economic entity assumption" states that the activities of the entity are to be kept separate from the activities of its owner and all other economic ...