ADM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Civil Society, Sole Proprietorship

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1301
• Professor: David Delcorde

Document Summary

This concept portrays three generic ensembles of organizations and institutions, each with its own unique characteristics, membership, challenges, opportunities, and contributions. The business segment gerneally includes all forms of for profit business ownership in canada, iincluding operations, partnership, and sole proprietorship. The government segment generally includes all levels of government in. The civil society segment generally includes organized and unorganized social networks, non-government, volunteer organizations, charities, and philanthropic efforts. At the apex appears b, g, and s in its purest form: pure reciprocity (civil society, pure exchange (business, pure coercion (government) All inner territory represents organizations embody different mixes of the three- a variety of socioeconomic and governance relationships. Rules or sorting mechanisms of coordination for each segment are based on different principles: business- supply and demand forces, government- redistribution and coercion, civil society- cooperation, reciprocity and solidarity.