Entrepreneurs
Organizations have highly specific purposes. A school is set up for the purpose of educating students; a government bureau is set up to provide specific services to its citizenry; a firm’s purpose is to produce and market goods and services.
Specificity of purpose varies between and among organizations; some conglomerates put no limitations of the kind of goods and services they may do business with.
Organizations not only have specific purpose but they are organized to achieve these- hence the programmed activities. In a firm for example, raw materials are purchased, processed, and marketed to earn the firm a profit. Machinery is acquired, repaired, overhauled periodically for the same purpose. This specificity of purpose and of the means by which these purposes are attained is a visible and important characteristic of organizations.