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.
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.
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Enterprises are all kinds of independent profit-making organizations (which may or may not be legal persons), and can be further divided into corporate enterprises and non-corporate enterprises, the latter such as partnership enterprises and sole proprietorship enterprises. There is also a special title which is described in the auction law. The "auctioneer" in the auction law refers to the auction enterprise. For example, the world Chinese auctioneer refers to the world Chinese auctioneer Co., Ltd., not a "person".
Enterprise units are self-financing production units. The so-called "self-financing" means that you bear the consequences of losses and profits and have certain autonomy. Enterprise units are divided into state-owned enterprises and private enterprises. State-owned enterprises are state-owned enterprises. A private enterprise is a business unit owned by individuals.
Institutions are public institutions established by the state with certain public welfare nature, but they are not government agencies, which are different from civil servants. Under normal circumstances, the state will give financial subsidies to these institutions. Divided into fully funded institutions, such as schools, institutions in balance allocation, such as hospitals, and other independent institutions that are not funded by the state.
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