transaction

...In the narrow sense, a business transaction refers to a negotiation between people to conclude a transaction contract, and business transactions conducted under a private property system are basically reduced to negotiations at the individual level, even if they are transactions between companies. According to JR Commons, an institutional economist, the concept of a transaction is a common phenomenon found in a wide range of human activities, including politics, economics, and psychology, and includes various human relationships between two or more people, such as gift and acquisition, rights and obligations, orders and obedience, freedom and coercion, and persuasion and fraud. Transactions involving the transfer of ownership include sales and purchase transactions, negotiated transactions, administrative transactions, and allocation transactions, and business transactions are representative of sales and purchase transactions or negotiated transactions. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…狭義には取引契約を結ぶための対人交渉を指して商取引といい，私有財産制のもとで行われる商取引は，たとえ企業間取引といえども基本的には個人レベルの交渉に還元される。取引transactionの概念は，制度学派の経済学者J.R.コモンズによれば政治，経済，心理など幅広い人間活動にみられる共通の現象であり，贈与と取得，権利と義務，命令と服従，自由と強制，説得と詐欺など，さまざまな2人以上の人間関係を含んでいる。所有権の移転に伴う取引には，売買的取引または交渉的取引，管理的取引，割当的取引があり，商取引は売買的取引または交渉的取引を代表している。…

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