Friday, December 17, 2010

Class with Can Kaya


Sole traders

Unincorporated businesses owned by and individual for profit.
The individual runs the business on their own and has sole responsibility for its success and failure.
Owner is also the manager.


Advantages
Disadvantages
Owners retain all profits

Unlimited liability

Easy to form

Financing limitations

Owners have flexibility

Management deficiencies


Lack of continuity















Internal locus of control: they believe that the future is under their control
External locus of control: believe in faith or chances

Partnership

More managerial help, more finance but more conflict.


Advantages
Disadvantages
Expended financial capacity

Difficult to solve

Easy to form

Interpersonal conflict

Management skills

Unlimited financial liability


Lack of continuity






Monday, December 6, 2010

What I learned on class last week


Public sectors are important:
  • -       Resources are taken under control
  • -       Non-trustable things like defense must be controlled.
  • -       Employee
  • -       Ownership of strategic resources
  • -       Country may lack capital in private sector
  • -       Protection of the public interest
  • -       Is able to provide goods for social benefit

Outsourcing: obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, esp. in place of an internal source

Government doesn’t have enough money for running prisons so it outsources it to a private firm.

Public Goods: provided equally to everybody so people don’t have to compete for its use.

Non-excludable (quantity available) ---- Non- rivalrous (benefit available)

If you were a private sector company would you be supplying public goods?
Because of the free rider problem you won’t get any money. Profit must come from the people using the lighthouse but you can’t get that money. Private investors have no reason to provide public goods because of the free rider problem.

Merit goods: everybody needs them but not everyone has the ability to pay them if it is provided by the private sector.

Franchisor- IB
Franchisee- KoƧ school