# company (economic)

a business of people working together

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: economic  ·  Arena: company

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [business](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-business.economic), [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort)

**Through:** people do work in a business structure

**Novel properties:**
- legal identity
- shared profit
- collective decision-making

## Examples
- In 2023, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 367,000 workers across 59 countries to manufacture vehicles. *(economics)*
- The International Space Station relies on continuous collaboration between NASA, Roscosmos, and ESA personnel for operations. *(engineering)*
- Wikipedia’s editing community of over 130,000 active volunteers functions as a nonprofit media company. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [corporate](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-corporate.business) (L11)
- [corporation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-corporation.business) (L11)
- [staff](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-staff.people) (L10)

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