Business Categories -- building on Chris Knight's list for EzineArticles

In my pursuit of a viable working set of categories for organizing thawts about economics and business, I recalled a list sent out to email newsletter subscribers (like myself) by Chris Knight of Ezine Articles. Here's his list for your meditation, and for clicking-up to reference his file of articles on offer for publication on websites.

Business

Accounting
Accounting Payroll
Advertising
Branding
Careers Employment
Change Management
Customer Service
Entrepreneurialism
Ethics
Franchising
Fundraising
Industrial Mechanical
Management
Marketing
Marketing Direct
Negotiation
Networking
Outsourcing
PR
Presentation
Productivity
Resumes Cover Letters
Sales
Sales Management
Sales Teleselling
Sales Training
Small Business
Solo Professionals
Strategic Planning
Team Building
Top7 or 10 Tips
Venture Capital
Workplace Communication

Now, I would organize many of these into a hierarchical system of at least three tiers, adding some of my own and reducing some to mere "detail mentioned" status--thus, not really a category for my purposes.

I must mention further that Mr Knight has spun-off elements of a hypothetical earlier list and made the spin-offs separate from his "Business" categories as such--his further basic cats of some relevance here, being "Internet and Businesses Online," "Finance," "Insurance," "Legal," "Real Estate," "Home Based Business."

Chris Knight, of course, has very functional reasons for his entire set, including the spin-offs. Functionally, the mere quantifcation of articles received by writers using his online writers' services, influences the need for organizing basic categories according to the number of specific kinds of articles on hand. But, since I'm more interested in a systemic categoriztion that can support some theorization, my set ulitmately will be different. Chris also says the number and organization of his categories can change over time, for his purposes. And that's just good business from the standpoint of the services to online writers that he offers.

Regarding the differences between the two purposes, for instance, Mr Knight's category of "Legal" would probably not be overwhelmingly concerned with the business of law, lawyers, law firms, courts, prosecutors of criminal cases, police, associations of police officers, govt departments of justice in various jurisdicatoins, etc. They all have bugets (business); but their over-riding purpose is juridical. Thus, my list could include such economic/business aspects of "Legal" under "Business," but I would be concerned to cross-refernece the business aspects with the law aspects as such. I would definitely have a category, not of "Legal," but of "Juridics."

Additionally, I would want to make sure that my system had techniques to take into account the internal juridics of any and every business. As well as the external juridics--where one business, for instance, enters into contractual relationship with another. The distinction between the internal and external jurdic relationships of (say) a business, is made conclusively by the law philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (Encyclopedia of the Science of Law). Likewise, HD's analysis allows us to observe the internal and external economic/business relations of law instituions and law firms, that are first of all not businesses but juridically-qualified entities. But this is getting far ahead of ourselves.

Thus, it's better to start somewhere close to the ground, and that's where Knight's organization of the material of his list helps us to start, slanted tho it be to the immediate purposes he has at hand. He starts with the phenomena--in this case as they compile in the concerns of a number of ezine-article writers who engage Chris Knight's services.