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The term ‘business’ includes many different types of organisation, from a part-time window-cleaner to a multinational company such as General Motors, employing thousands of people in many different countries. Businesses are not just commercial or privately-owned firms — nationalised industries and Government agencies also act according to business principies, producing and supplying goods and services.
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© 1992 Gerry Gorman
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Gorman, G. (1992). Introduction to Business. In: Business Studies A Level. Macmillan Work Out Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13846-3_1
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