Firm - Citizendia

Firm or The Firm can have several meanings:

Any business entity such as a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship. A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business For partnership in cricket terminology see List of cricket terms A partnership is a type of Business entity in which partners A sole proprietorship, or simply proprietorship ( Benjamen Clark This more general meaning is used in macroeconomics (in terms such as ideal firm size). Macroeconomics is a branch of Economics that deals with the performance structure and behavior of a national or regional Economy as a whole The ideal firm size is the theoretically most competitive size for any company, in a given industry at a given time which should ideally correspond with the
The word firm is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to refer to a business group of professionals, such as law firm, architectural firm, securities/financial firm (such as private equity), or consulting firm. This article is about people called professionals For the Movie, see The Professional or Leon. A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more Lawyers to engage in the practice of law architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed Architects and practices the profession of Architecture. In Finance, private equity is an Asset class consisting of equity Securities in operating companies that are not Publicly traded on This use can be seen in phrases such as white shoe firm. White shoe firm is a phrase used to describe the leading professional services firms in America, particularly firms that have been in existence for more than a century and represent Contrast with sole practitioner. A sole proprietorship, or simply proprietorship ( Benjamen Clark
British slang phrase for a criminal gang or football hooligans (see list of hooligan firms). Regional slangs See also Yorkshire colloquialisms, London slang, Cockney rhyming slang Differences with American slang Spelling "Crime syndicate" redirects here For the DC Comics group of villains see Crime Syndicate. Football hooliganism such as brawls vandalism and intimidation carried out by Association football club supporters and fans

Organizations

Organizations called The Firm:
- The Firm, a criminal gang active in the East End of London, once run by the Kray twins
- The British Royal Family, allegedly referred to as the "the Firm" by family members
- Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), one of the United Kingdom intelligence agencies
- McKinsey & Company, a large multinational management consulting firm
- Firmaet, an anti-communist private intelligence agency in Demark run by former Danish resistance movement leader Arne Sejr

Music and popular culture

The Firm (EastEnders), a fictional organisation in the British TV series, EastEnders
The Firm (novel), a 1991 novel by John Grisham
- The Firm (film), a 1993 movie based on the book
The Firm (1988 film), a British TV movie starring Gary Oldman
The Firm (band), a British rock group formed in 1984 by Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers
The Firm (group), a hip-hop music supergroup that released one album in 1997
The Firm (Star Trekkin'), a music act that produced the 1987 UK #1 hit "Star Trekkin'"
The Firm (pop group), a London-based pop group
The F. Reginald "Reggie" Kray ( 24 October 1933 &ndash 1 October 2000) and Ronald "Ronnie" Kray ( 24 October The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to the Information gathering (known in the context as " intelligence " McKinsey & Company is a global Management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management Multinational corporation ( MNC) or transnational corporation ( TNC) is a Corporation or enterprise that manages Production or delivers Management consulting refers to both the industry of and the practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing business problems Anti-communism refers to opposition to Communism. Historically the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and A private intelligence agency is a private sector (non-governmental organization devoted to the collection and analysis of information most commonly through the evaluation of public In Telephony, the demarcation point is the point at which the Telephone company network ends and connects with the wiring at the customer premises The Danish Resistance Movement (Modstandsbevægelsen was an underground insurgency movement to resist the German Occupation of Denmark during World War II. Arne Sejr (born January 31, 1922) is a Danish World War II resistance member who became involved in anti-communist activities after The Firm is a fictional Gangland organisation in the popular BBC Soap opera EastEnders, probably inspired by the notorious real-life For the film of the same title please see The Firm (1993 film The Firm is a 1991 Legal thriller and the second novel This article is about the 1993 film For the 1988 film of the same name see The Firm (1988 film The Firm is a Legal thriller film The Firm is a 1988 TV film directed by Alan Clarke and written by Al Ashton. Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958 is an English actor writer director, producer, Voice-over artist and occasional Musician who The Firm were an English rock supergroup comprising former Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, ex- Led James Patrick Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944 is an English Guitarist, Composer and record producer Paul Rodgers, (born 17 December 1949 is an English rock singer-songwriter best known for being a member of Free and Bad Company. The Firm is a British music act formed by Guitarist, Session musician and Music producer John O'Connor which had hits in the 1980s with Novelty songs Star Trekkin is a Novelty song released in 1987 by a band called The Firm (not to be confused with the British rock group or the hip-hop I. R. M. , a fictional organization in the TV series Airwolf
The Firm (TV series), a 2007 Malaysian corporate reality television programme. Airwolf is an American Television series that ran from 1984 through 1987 The Firm is Malaysia's first Corporate Reality television programme produced by Popiah Pictures and Ntv7. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and Reality television is a genre of Television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations documents actual events and usually features ordinary
The Firm, Inc., a Beverly Hills-based talent management company headed by Jeff Kwatinetz

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Music and popular culture

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