Combine () is a term for industrial
business group
A corporate group, company group or business group, also formally known as a group of companies, is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control. These types of gr ...
s,
conglomerates or
trusts
A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property, or any transferable right, gives it to another to manage and use solely for the benefit of a designated person. In the English common law, the party who entrusts the property is k ...
in the former
socialist countries. Examples include
VEB Kombinat Robotron, an electronics manufacturer, and
IFA, a manufacturer of vehicles, both in
East Germany
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
, and the
Erdenet copper combine in
Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...
.
Influence
The model of the ''kombinat'' was an influence on the development of the Chinese ''
danwei
A work unit or ''danwei'' () is the name given to a place of employment in the People's Republic of China. The term ''danwei'' remains in use today, as people still use it to refer to their workplace. Prior to Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, a ...
''.
See also
*
Production association
References
External links
Комбiнат at a dictionary of the Ukrainian language
Production Association (combine) The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Combine (industry) The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Conglomerate companies
Manufacturing companies of Russia
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
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