The term business administration is used to describe a subject that describes and explains the target and actual conditions in a business and teaches decision-making aids. This is absolutely correct. Also the fact that those interested in general business administration are largely confronted with industrial challenges. Complementary specialist areas such as banking management, commercial management, management in healthcare and business administration of so-called non-profit organizations (NPO), such as non-profit associations or companies are based on this.
In fact, the term business administration cannot be restricted to exclusively commercial or business activities. A "business" is ultimately every household that exists in an organized form and in which economically regulated activities are carried out. Defined as a place of targeted, regulated interaction between people on people and people on things1. In this way, the parent who manages the private budget, pays bills, compares prices - and thus manages the economy in the most cost-effective way - also becomes a financial economist of his or her household. In the private sector, the instrument of calculation is not understood as a "subject" or "tool", but is derived practically from limited resources. As in the commercial counterpart, human needs relating to goods, services and rights are satisfied directly or indirectly through calculation. The same applies to a small non-profit association or interest group that has to run its missionary work in an organized manner. The aim is less to satisfy market needs and more to satisfy (private) needs. Another difference: the overall situation remains less complex.
Complex business administration as a form of teaching serves the complexity, consisting of the interaction of micro- and macroeconomics or business and economics, the phases of the life process of an economic supplier as a unit, which requires an organized business operation. As well as its productivity, customers, business partners and risks in the period under review. Its evaluations and measures extend across the sub-areas, in particular: (international) management, production, logistics, (international) marketing and sales, financing, controlling, accounting, taxes as well as digital business.
In the current specialist literature, it remains defined that economics is the totality of the organization and measures for planning and meeting human needs. Regardless of the base or household type. Business administration as a subject prepares individuals for these organizational and measure designs.
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1 vgl. Kompakt-Lexikon Wirtschaftstheorie. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2013. Begriff "Betrieb", S. 50
Von Känel, Siegfried. Betriebswirtschaftslehre - Eine Einführung. Springer Gabler, Dresden/Wiesbaden 2018, S 15-16
Korndorfer, Wolfgang: Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre - Aufbau - Ablauf - Führung - Leitung. Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1980.S.5-23.