The term enterprise (of operate) designates

• the entire phase from the production to the scrapping, outline and/or final deactivation of a plant. It contains the normal operation and all phases of the maintenance.
• in the management economics a commercial, commercial or industrial enterprise. , One speaks work of enterprises to its internal requirement of households. If they provide goods for strange need, it concerns enterprises.
• In the sense of the advice and commission right of the European Union an enterprise is defined administered of the production units as whole by the business owner, in the area of a member state is (article 2 letter b VO (EEC) No. 1782/2003). ] If EN extend the production unit to several member states, several enterprises are therefore present.
• For the range of the industrial law no uniform legal definition of the operating term exists in Germany. In the sense of the industrial democracy act by it one understands: "„the organizational unit, within those the employer alone or with its employees by technical and immaterial means determined work-technical purposes continued pursues, which are not only exhausted in the satisfaction of internal requirement "“. An enterprise can have several enterprises. An enterprise can be led (if a uniform line apparatus existed) also by several enterprises (= community enterprise).
• the organizational unit of an enterprise, which is responsible for the production of the product.
• the building, which "„business premises "“, in which an enterprise is
• a working place with several jobs
• "„functioning "“. technical mechanisms can be "„in "“or "„out of operation "“.
• in the broader sense bustle, driving, Lebhaftigkeit.
• On the railway the term designates a business field, which the safe and punctual execution of course travels coordinates (e.g. driving service leaders).

Definition enterprise: The enterprise is a combination of factors of production (work, soil, capital). The combination of the factors of production always takes place according to the economy principle. This principle means that the enterprise is in the financial equilibrium, which is called that the enterprise able be at any time must, to follow its liabilities.

Alternatively a process orientated view offers itself: The enterprise covers a process, an input (special and services, information) transformed to an output (special and services, information).

Apart from these (system-indifferent) definitions of the enterprise independent of the economic system, there are still further definitions of the enterprise referred to the economic system: In a free-market economy the following regulation factors work:

• the self-determination of the economic plan (autonomy principle),
• the acquisition-economical principle (maximization of profit),
• the principle of the private property.

In a planned economy this regulation factors are relevant:

• central national economy plan (organ principle),
• Principle of plan fulfillment,
• Principle of the common property.

Between free-market economy and planned economy the social economy stands

See also

• Production, economic business concern, purpose enterprise, industrial concern, tendency enterprise, employment enterprise

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