Section 2: Classification of Businesses Flashcards
Primary Sector
firms whose business activity involves the extraction of natural reasources.
Secondary Sector
firms that process and manufacture goods from natural reasources.
Tertiary Sector
firms that supply a service to consumers and other buisnesses.
Chain of Production
The production and supply of goods to the final consumer involves activites from primary, secondary and tertiary sevtor businesses.
Mixed Economy
An economy where reasourse are owned and controlled by both private and public sectors.
Private Sectors
The part of that economy that is owned and controlled by individuals and companies profits.
Public Sector
The part of an economy that is controlled by the state or government
Industrialisations
The growing of the secondary sector business activity and the reduced of the primary sector.
De industrialisations
The growing importance of the teritary sector and the reduced of the secondary sector.
Developed economies
From manufactoring to tertiary sectors.
Trend
Movement from the primary sector to secondary sector