Types of business entity

A business entity is an entity that is formed and administered as per commercial law in order to engage in business activities, charitable work, or other activities allowable.

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company that is owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company, parent, or holding company.

A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner, the government.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs, also small and medium enterprises) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits.

A Kommanditgesellschaft (abbreviated "KG", pronounced [kɔmanˈditgəˌzɛlʃaft]) is the German name for a limited partnership business entity and is used in German, Austrian and some other European legal systems.

A corporation is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

In most countries, a general partnership (the basic form of partnership under common law) is an association of persons or an unincorporated company with the following major features: * Created by agreement, proof of existence and estoppel.

A joint-stock company is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders.

A European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) is a type of legal entity created on 1985-07-25 under European Community (EC) Council Regulation 2137/85.

A concern (German: Konzern) is a type of business group common in Europe, particularly in Germany.

Kabunakama (株仲間) were merchant guilds in Edo period Japan, which developed out of the basic merchants' associations known as nakama.

A private military company (PMC), private military firm (PMF), or private military, is an independent company or organization providing armed combat and/or security services.

Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (pronounced [gəˈzɛlʃaft mɪt bəˈʃʁɛŋktɐ ˈhaftʊŋ], abbreviated GmbH [geː ʔɛm beː haː], in Austria also GesmbH or Ges.m.b.H.), which is German for "company with limited liability", is a type of legal entityvery common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (where it is equivalent to a S.à r.l.) and Liechtenstein.

A limited liability partnership (LLP) is a partnership in which some or all partners (depending on the jurisdiction) have limited liabilities.

A public, publicly traded, publicly held company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

A shell corporation is a company which serves as a vehicle for business transactions without itself having any significant assets or operations.

A division of a business or business division (sometimes called a business sector) is one of the parts into which a business, organization or company is divided.

The Nepal Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd.

The European Cooperative Society (SCE, for Latin societas cooperativa Europaea) is, in company law, a European co-operative type of company, established in 2006 and related to the European Company.

A shelf corporation, shelf company, or aged corporation is a company or corporation that has had no activity.

A European Private Company (Latin: societas privata Europaea, SPE) is a legal form for a limited liability company that is being proposed by the European Commission to be introduced across the European Union.

A partenreederei (Plural: Partenreedereien) is a type of partnership under German and German-influenced maritime law for the joint ownership of a merchant vessel.

An employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is an employee-owner program that provides a company's workforce with an ownership interest in the company.

A yūgen gaisha or yūgen kaisha (Jp. 有限会社, lit. "limited company," abbreviated in English as Y.K. or Co., Ltd.) is a form of business organization in Japan.

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.

Mochibun kaisha (持分会社) are a class of corporations under Japanese law.

In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.

The Delaware General Corporation Law (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code) is the statute governing corporate law in the U.

An income trust is an investment that may hold equities, debt instruments, royalty interests or real properties.