“Distribution” in the broadest sense is any activity aimed at determining or changing an allocation.

“Distribution” in the narrow sense of economic theory is any activity aimed at changing the allocation of resources, goods, money and rights.

In the context of the national economy, the word “distribution” refers to the abstract definition and sometimes the generated state of allocation of resources, goods, money and rights.

In the context of business management and business economics, the word “distribution” refers to any activity aimed at determining or changing the actual allocation of certain goods, capital or rights.

In the “Digital Era Framework”, “distribution” is counted as the mode of “action”, one of the seven “modes of information application”, which differentiate the archetypes of handling information, such as creation, representation, transmission, exploration, evaluation, decision and action.