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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. A business (also called a company, enterprise or firm) is a legally recognized organization designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit that will increase the wealth of its owners and grow the business itself. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative enterprises and state-owned enterprises. Businesses can also be formed not-for-profit or be state-owned. The etymology of "business" relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work. The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage (above) to mean a particular company or corporation, the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as "the music business" and compound forms such as agribusiness, or the broadest meaning to include all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services. However, the exact definition of business, like much else in the philosophy of business, is a matter of debate and complexity of meanings From Wikipedia under the
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 news.google.com Houston Chronicle Q. How do I know which legal structure would be best for my business ? Right now I work alone, but I do plan to hire ... and more » news.google.com Bloomberg 28 (Bloomberg) -- Prudential Plc may sell its UK life insurance business to Resolution Ltd. as part of a deal to buy an Asian life insurance unit from ... Prudential in talks to buy AIG's Asia business Times Online Prudential's $35 billion bid for AIA depends on Asian markets Reuters U.K.'s Prudential Exploring Deal for AIG Unit Wall Street Journal all 331 news articles » news.google.com The Associated Press new york business is starting to creep upward at some small companies. And employees who have gone without raises or had their salaries cut over the past ... and more » From Google News Search: "Business" How important are business ethics to a company and their success? Q. Discuss the ethical climate at a business that you are familiar with or one that you have researched. How have ethics affected this business? What does this business do to enforce ethical principles? What things could they do better? How can we as individual employees influence the application of ethics are our businesses? Give your thoughts and ideas on this subject. Asked by Trying!! - Sun Jan 27 18:42:34 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. business ethics are important but are difficult to enforce. I am a member of a professional organization with a defined ethics policy in it's bylaws. there are complaints of ethics violations against 3 members but no one wants to sit on an ethics committee for fear of incurring personal liability. It' a ridiculous situation mired in politics and fear of reprisals. Answered by slackjawhb - Sun Jan 27 18:53:08 2008 What steps should a business take to claim legal ownership of work completed by contractors on it's behalf? Q. If a small business hires either independent contractors or another business to perform work for them, what steps should that business take to make sure that the completed product is legally owned by the business and not the entities or individual employed to create that product? Pointing me to resources on this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Asked by rlc_60504 - Sun Jan 10 11:13:07 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. You definitely need an intellectual property agreement before the work commences. My understanding is that, in the absence of this, the contractor would own the rights to the work regardless of your payment for the work. Whether or not that is true, it makes sense to have one to remove all doubt. Search using terms like "contract programmer intellectual property agreement" (even if the work/product you are talking about is not computer code, because this industry uses them a lot). Answered by OldJimmy - Sun Jan 10 11:32:09 2010 What kind of business can I start in a warehouse building?
Q. My husband has a machine shop and only uses about 1/2 his building. I would like to start a business in the other half. I wanted to partition off a room for an office and do bookkeeping and then I was thinking about maybe a document shredding business or a document storage business would be good - any other ideas? Thanks! The zoning would not be a problem. This building is located in the center of town off a main street through town. I currently work for an accounting firm and you would not believe the paper we go through - we use a shredding service and have a storage building. Doctors offices and lawyers also have a lot of documents that cannot be thrown in the garbage because of the information they contain. Thanks for the input -… [cont.] Asked by nomnkybusiness - Fri Jun 1 18:46:05 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. Any kind of storage would be a natural, and easy. Or how about a combination coffee shop and tool supply? Answered by Michael B - Fri Jun 1 19:29:54 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Business" Business is the "art" of making money by selling things or services people want for more than their cost. - Patrick Dixon Sourced
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