Understanding business activity Flashcards
Changes in the importance of business classification
Explain industrialisation
Industrialisation is the term used to describe the importance of the secondary sector,manufacturing industries in developing countries
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Industrialisation iis the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agriculture to one based on manufacturing of goods
Explain de-industrialisation
Involves a decrease in relative important of industry and manufacturing in economic
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De-industrialisation involve an increase importance of service sector to total place of industry
Explain mixed economy
A mixed economy has both private and public sector. The government have changed balance between private and public sector business
They have sold public businesses to private sector businesses-called privatisation
Advantage of privalisation
(i)Are more efficient-cost are controlled
(ii)More capital can be invested
Disadvantage of privatisation
(i)With aim of cutting cost-more workers might lose their jobs
(ii)Less likely to focus on social objective
Explain public sector
It refers to business organisation that are owned,controlled and financial by central government
Explain the objectives of public sector
(i)To provided public welfare/to (ii)provide a value for money services that meet needs of population
Explain private sector
It refers to business own,control and financed by private individual-range from small local businesses(sole trader)to larger businesses that operate throughout the world(multinational)
Explain the objectives of private sector
Maximise profit