Question about projects. Is the company/firm itself a project?

Question

Project management

There has actually been a dispute.
Is a company, firm, its own business project?
I will clarify again that a project is understood as an analogy with an IT project, and not a plan, scheme, etc.
My arguments FOR:
For the top management of the company, the company itself is a project. In fact, it goes through all stages of the project life cycle, of course, if the business is successful, the project seems to “freeze” at the maintenance stage.
I want to hear the opinions of others.

Answer 1

A company is the legal form of a working business model, ideally. If the business model does not work, the project naturally dies, and which companies are behind it is the tenth thing.

Answer 2

Strictly speaking, in terms of terminology, no.
Because a firm or a company is a group of people + a legal entity, and a firm can have many projects. A manager in a firm can have many projects.
But ... if there is a cool dude "oligarch" who has shares in 20 such companies, then he can consider each company as his own project, or if he has one company doing one thing, then he says the project means the company, the company says - means the project. Something like this ))

Answer 3

a company a firm and its own business are completely different things
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