Organization: Forms of business

Forms of business

Have you ever thought who brings the required capital, takes the responsibility of arranging other resources, puts them into action, and coordinates and controls the activities to earn the desired profits? If you look around, you will find that a small grocery shop is owned and run by a single individual who performs all these activities. But, in big businesses, it may not be possible for a single person to perform all these activities. So in such cases two or more persons join hands to finance and manage the business properly and share its profit as per their agreement. Thus, business organisations may be owned and managed by a single individual or group of individuals who may form a partnership firm or a joint stock company. Such arrangement of ownership and management is termed as a form of business organisation. A business organisation usually takes the following forms in India:

(1) Sole proprietorship

(2) Partnership

(3) Joint Hindu Family (4) Cooperative Society

(5) Joint Stock Company

Let us now learn in detail the exact nature of these forms of business organisation, excluding Joint Stock Company which will be taken up in the next lesson.