What is the definition of a company? What are the characteristics of corporate enterprises? Pray for the great gods.

A company-based enterprise, also known as a joint-stock enterprise, refers to a legal person enterprise established by two or more investors (natural persons or legal persons) according to law, with independent legal person property, independent operation and self-financing. Main features of corporate enterprises: Modern enterprise system refers to a new enterprise system with clear property rights, clear rights and responsibilities, separation of government and enterprise, and scientific management, which is based on a perfect corporate system and guaranteed by a limited liability system. Its main contents include: enterprise legal person system, enterprise self-financing system, investor limited liability system, scientific leadership system and organizational management system. Specifically: 1. Enterprise assets have clear physical boundaries and value boundaries, and some government agencies exercise the functions of owners on behalf of the state and effectively assume the corresponding responsibilities of investors. 2. Enterprises usually adopt the company system, namely the limited liability company and the joint stock limited company system. According to the requirements of the Company Law, an interdependent and balanced corporate governance structure composed of shareholders' meeting, board of directors, board of supervisors and senior management personnel has been formed and effectively operated. 3. Enterprises take production and operation as their main functions and have clear profit targets. Managers and ordinary employees at all levels earn income according to their business performance and labor contribution. Welfare undertakings such as housing allocation, pension and medical care are undertaken by the market, society or government agencies. 4. The enterprise has a reasonable organizational structure and has formed an effective internal management system and mechanism in production, supply and marketing, finance, research and development, quality control, labor and personnel. 5. Enterprises have rigid budget constraints and reasonable financial structure, and can seek enterprise expansion through acquisition, merger and alliance. When poor management is unsustainable, they can seek the redistribution of assets and other factors of production through bankruptcy and merger.