Enterprise (n.)— Merriam Webster: From Old French entreprendre “to undertake”. 1. a project or undertaking. 2. a business organization; a company. 3. a systematic purposeful activity. 4. initiative; readiness to engage in daring or difficult action .Somewhere along the way, the second eclipsed the rest. Complex coordination required corporate form, so enterprise became company. Coordination infrastructure shapes the definition of enterprise, and the nature of organizations. For most of human ...

Enterprise (n.)— Merriam Webster: From Old French entreprendre “to undertake”. 1. a project or undertaking. 2. a business organization; a company. 3. a systematic purposeful activity. 4. initiative; readiness to engage in daring or difficult action .Somewhere along the way, the second eclipsed the rest. Complex coordination required corporate form, so enterprise became company. Coordination infrastructure shapes the definition of enterprise, and the nature of organizations. For most of human ...