Theories and concepts for analyzing business organizations

Abstract

This article presents a general concept of guilds and explains the entrepreneurialspecificities. It develops several typologiesthat distinguish types of business organizations according to different criteria (size of partners, role in intermediation, complexity,size of organization, sector of activity and territoriality) and addresses various theoreticalperspectives of organizational studies (rationalist, naturalistic and the open system) applied to the central problems of businessassociations.