La Plata County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2010 census, the population was 51,334. The county seat is Durango. The county was named for the La Plata River and the La Plata Mountains. La plata is the Spanish language word for silver. La Plata County comprises the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county is home to Durango Rock Shelters Archeology Site, the type site for the Basketmaker II period of Anasazi culture.
A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together to achieve a common objective. [citation needed] Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving, but can be that as well.
firm. 1  a sole proprietorship: a firm owned and controlled (managed) by a single person, i.e. the type of firm that most closely approximates to that of the âfirmâ in economic theory. 2  a partnership: a firm owned and controlled by two or more persons who are parties to a partnership agreement. a JOINT-STOCK COMPANY: a firm that is owned by a group of ordinary shareholders and the capital of which is divided up into a number of SHARES. See COOPERATIVE. The economic form of a firm consists of: a horizontal firm: a firm that is engaged in a single productive activity, e.g. motor-car assembly. a vertical firm: a firm that undertakes two or more vertically linked productive activities, e.g. the production of car components (clutches, steel body shells) and car assembly.