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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 A socialist state, socialist republic, or socialist country is a sovereign state constitutionally dedicated to the establishment of socialism. This article is about states that refer to themselves as socialist states, and not specifically ab ...
. Examples include VEB Kombinat Robotron, an electronics manufacturer, and
IFA IFA or Ifa may refer to: Organisations Economics * Independent financial adviser, a type of financial services professional in the UK * Index Fund Advisors * Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, representing actuaries in the UK * Institute of Act ...
, 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 Production association () was a form of the organization of industry in the Soviet Union. According to the ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'', it is "a single specialized production and economic complex, which includes factories, plants, research, desi ...


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 {{Socialism-stub