Generally speaking, an enterprise refers to a legal person or other social and economic organization that uses various factors of production (land, labor, capital, technology and entrepreneurial talents) to provide goods or services to the market in order to obtain profits, and implements independent operation, self-financing and independent accounting.
The company is a for-profit enterprise legal person established in China in accordance with the Company Law, including limited liability companies and joint stock limited companies. It is a form of enterprise organization formed in the market economy to meet the needs of socialized mass production.
"Group" is the general name of "group company", such as "XX Group", and its full name must be "XX Group Limited" or "XX Group Limited". The so-called "group company" refers to an enterprise that invests in multiple subsidiaries in China.
2. Types and organizational forms
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.
The main forms of companies are unlimited liability companies, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, joint-stock companies and joint-stock companies, which are different from non-profit social organizations and institutions.
The enterprise group consists of parent company, subsidiary company, joint-stock company and other member units. Institutions and social organizations can also become members of enterprise groups.
3. Different structures
The definition of enterprise in Modern Chinese Dictionary is factories, mines, railways, companies and other departments engaged in economic activities such as production, transportation and trade.
A company refers to a limited liability company and a joint-stock limited liability company, which has all the attributes of an enterprise. Therefore, all companies are enterprises, but all enterprises are not necessarily companies.
The core layer of the group is an economic entity with independent operation, independent accounting, self-financing, tax payment according to regulations, economic responsibility and legal personality.
Companies, enterprises and groups can all be called economies. There are many affiliated small companies under the group, such as Alibaba and Wanda, which are all called groups. Group belongs to a form of company, but companies exist in many forms, such as self-employed people going to industrial and commercial registration, also called companies. But in various forms, the group PK company wins the company. There are many types of companies, including limited companies, liability companies and joint-stock companies. The company is an enterprise legal person with independent legal person property rights. The meaning of enterprise is broader than that of company: company is a kind of enterprise, which is divided into state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, sole proprietorship enterprises and partnership enterprises. Larger enterprises exist in the form of companies.
Therefore, the company is a form of enterprise, but the enterprise does not necessarily belong to the company. The company has a legal person, and the shareholders of the company bear corresponding responsibilities. However, there is no legal person in the enterprise, only investors and partners, and only investors Hu Zong and partners bear corresponding responsibilities. Group is not a form of registration, but a function of exerting collective advantages, thus creating greater value.