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AND ENVIRONMENT
1.2 TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS
• Organizations are owned and controlled by private
individuals and businesses.
PRIVATE • Ranging from those owned by one person to large
SECTOR multinational companies.
• The main aim is to make profit, positive difference
between sales revenue and its costs.
PUBLIC SECTOR
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Access to Create Stabilise the Avoid Protect
basic services employment economy wasteful citizens and
competition businesses
PROFIT-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
Restaurateurs, decorators,
photographers.
SOLE TRADERS
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
• Few legal formalities • Unlimited liability
• Profit taking • Limited sources of finance
• Being your own boss • High risks
• Personalised service • Workload and stress
• Privacy • Limited economies of scale
• Quicker decision-making • Lack of continuity
PARTNERSHIPS
• A partnership is a profit-seeking
business owned by two or more
persons.
• Maximum number of owners is 20.
• Mainly financed by personal funds of
each owner.
• Can raise money from silent partners
who do not take part in the running
of the partnership but have a financial
stake.
DEED OF PARTNERSHIP
ADVANTAGES DIASDVANTAGES
• Financial strength • Unlimited liability
• Specialisation and division of labour • A lack of continuity
• Financial privacy • Prolonged decision–making
• Cost-effective • Lack of harmony
• Businesses owned by shareholders – individuals or
businesses that have invested money to provide capital
COMPANIES for a company.
(CORPORATIONS)
• Often called joint-stock companies because the shares
are jointly held by numerous entities.
COMPANIES (CORPORATIONS)
PRIVATE LIMITED
COMPANIES Shares are sold to private family
members and friends
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
• Raising finance • Communication problems
• Limited liability • Added complexities
• Continuity • Compliance costs
• Economies of scale • Disclosure of information
• Productivity • Bureaucracy
• Tax benefits • Loss of control
DIFFERENCES
Private
Public sector
sector Cooperatives
companies
companies
Reinvest or donate any surplus to create
positive social change.
PRIVATE SECTOR
Use ethical business practises to achieve
COMPANIES their social aims related to the needs of
local communities and societies.
AIMS OF PUBLIC
AND PRIVATE Social aims
SOCIAL
ENTERPRISES:
Environmental aims
COOPERATIVES
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
• Incentives to work • Disincentive effects
• Decision-making power • Limited sources of finance
• Social benefits • Slower decision-making
• Public support • Limited promotional opportunites
NON-PROFIT SOCIAL
ENTERPRISES
• Businesses run in a commercial-like manner
but without profit being the main goal.
• Use their surplus revenues to achieve social
goals rather than distributing dividends to
shareholders.
• Public libraries, state schools, museums.
NON-PROFIT SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
Non-governmental
Charities
organizations (NGOs)
• Private sector non-for-profit social enterprises that
operate for the benefit of others rather than primarily
NON- aiming to make a profit.
GOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS • Any kind of organization that is independent of the
government or direct public sector influence and is
not-for-profit.
TYPES OF NGOS
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
• Social benefits • Bureaucracy
• Tax exemptions for NPOs • Disincentive effects
• Tax incentives for donors • Charity fraud
• Limited liability • Inefficiencies
• Public recognition and trust • Limited sources of finance
• Amount of finance
• Size
FACTORS
AFFECTING THE • Limited liability
CHOICE OF • Degree of ownership and control
BUSINESS • Type of business activity
ORGANIZATION • Change