### social organization | institution | company:

Internet company
* Internet companies can amortize technology over a global market
  - give away information because their cost of capital is virtually zero
  - rely on servers to run their Web sites and online services
  - remain popular with investors even when companies fail to make a profit
  - seek female website designers to target the growing audience of women online
  - thrive on their ability to drive people to their sites
* Many Internet companies use ad agencies to sell advertising on their site.
* Most Internet companies are venders or middlemen for other merchants.

Japanese company
* Japanese companies are commercial organizations
  - heavily involved in recycling and keeping the environment clean
* Japanese companies have a lot of hierarchy and levels
  - strong sense of responsibility to society
  - the highest rate of employee participation regarding quality
  - use information
* Many Japanese companies open plants and branches in Asian countries.
* Some Japanese companies use sawdust compacted by machine in Indonesia to make bincho charcoal.

### social organization | institution | company:

Large company
* Large companies are also more likely to provide benefits to their employees
  - more likely to be involved in electronic commerce and encrypted transactions
  - can lose millions of dollars when their computer systems fail
  - control the world of business
  - convert huge amounts of currency each year
  - enjoy economies of scale in purchasing and marketing
* Large companies have a safety engineer or a safety director who keeps minutes of safety meetings
  - divisions and subsidiaries with different names
  - higher average starting salaries than small companies
  - many vice presidents
  - thousands of supervisory employees
  - make contracts
  - sell products
  - spend billions on building their brand
* Large companies tend to be more hierarchical than smaller companies
  - prosper when small ones are bleeding
* Many large companies can provide men and women with a wide variety of personalities and backgrounds
  - use firewalls to protect against hackers
* Most large companies are a collection of smaller business units.
* Most large companies maintain Web sites on which they post current job openings
  - separate divisions of people involved in old media and new media
  - reward investors partly in dividends, which are taxed as ordinary income
* Some large companies have foundations that make grants
  - gay and lesbian employee groups
  - operate large networks of subsystems
  - scan resumes into a database that they search when seeking new employees.
  * The fact that Airbus allows a group to meet at their building does not make it notable. There are many fine organizations in the world that are not notable. Some large companies allow boy scout troops to meet in their building. That does not transfer the notability of the company to the boy scout troop
+ Headquarters: Business :: Military :: Administrative buildings
  * All large companies have headquarter which control the business. A large non-governmental organization also has a headquarter from where its activities are controlled. The term is also used regarding military organizations.

Lead company
* Lead companies develop methods.
* Lead companies specialize in approaches

Major company
* Major companies are business.
* Many major companies produce products in more than one industry.

Many company
* Many companies develop methods
  - find growth
  - have problems
* Many companies offer benefits
  - options
  - to help business