Combine (enterprise)

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0125-004, VEB Robotron Elektronik Dresden, Endmontage.jpg

One of the 17,000 workers at the Kombinat Robotron in the German Democratic Republic in 1987 working to produce typewriters

Combine (Template:Langx) is a term for industrial business groups, conglomerates or trusts in the former socialist countries. Examples include VEB Kombinat Robotron, an electronics manufacturer, and IFA, a manufacturer of vehicles, both in East Germany, and the Erdenet copper combine in Mongolia.

Influence

The model of the kombinat was an influence on the development of the Chinese danwei.Template:Rp

See also

• Production association

External links

• Комбiнат at a dictionary of the Ukrainian language Template:In lang
• 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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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