Types of business activities

The term "entrepreneurship" means any activity aimed at obtaining a constant profit from the sales of certain groups of goods, the production of any products with subsequent sales and services. At the same time, persons engaged in any type of entrepreneurial activity must be properly registered as an entrepreneur.

An entrepreneur or a businessman is currently considered to be any person who carries out any economic activity independently and exclusively on his own, entering into relations with other economic entities.

Types of entrepreneurial activities, depending on the content, direction, object of capital application, as well as obtaining concrete results, are different. So distinguish enterprise of industrial, financial and credit, insurance, intermediary and commercial-trading.

By industrial enterprise in the broad sense of the word is understood the creation or production of any product that is necessary for the consumer and can be sold or sold as an exchange for other goods, that is, it can be about the production of any product, goods, information, knowledge, spiritual values Or services to which the entrepreneur is directly engaged using the means of production owned or leased by him. All produced values are intended for subsequent implementation.

Industrial entrepreneurship in Russia is the most risky business due to the almost complete lack of conditions for this type of activity.

There are other types and forms of entrepreneurship, the most famous kind being commercial, or commercial, with which the manufacturing business is tightly connected. Commercial entrepreneurship is developing very rapidly in Russia. The principle of its organization is quite different from the production one, because the entrepreneur here does not produce material values, but only sells finished goods to the end user, previously acquiring them from other persons, including from direct producers.

The attractiveness of commercial entrepreneurship lies in the clear opportunity to sell the product at a higher price than it was purchased, while gaining quite a considerable profit. However, in practice, to realize such an opportunity is not so simple - often the huge work of a businessman-trader is in the shadows. In addition, to successfully conduct a trading business, one must study and constantly know the unmet demand of potential buyers and be able to respond quickly to all changes in the market situation by offering consumers the goods or their analogues. This is the main difficulty of commercial entrepreneurship.

There are other types of entrepreneurial activity on the market - financial and credit business, as well as intermediary and insurance business, of which the most risky is, perhaps, the intermediary.

As types and forms of entrepreneurship, one-person enterprise, partnership and corporation are distinguished. The individual enterprise, as the name suggests, is a business of one person, who has in private property material resources and equipment necessary for production activities.

Partnership is a natural continuation of one-man business when two or more partners start business.

And, finally, the form of ownership separated from concrete owners is a corporation. This is usually a legal entity on behalf of which specific people are acting in the market, buying and selling assets, providing loans and so on.

Among the forms that are part of the larger form of the corporation, a small enterprise, a joint-stock company and a joint venture are known.

Here, perhaps, and all kinds of entrepreneurial activities. An important factor affecting business success is the culture of entrepreneurship. This concept can include compulsion, honesty, conscientiousness and decency. The culture of entrepreneurship is also the ability to negotiate, communicate with partners, the press and much more.