corporate capitalism
Company-dominated market system
Corporate capitalism is an economic system dominated by large corporations rather than small businesses or individual entrepreneurs.
The term often carries critical connotations, suggesting that big business wields outsized influence over markets, politics, and society: Corporate capitalism has hollowed out Main Street.
Distinguished from other forms of capitalism by the central role of the corporation as the primary economic actor.
- big businessLarge companies collectively
- board of directorsGoverning body of organization
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- multinationalOperating across multiple countries
- commerceExchange of goods, services
mergers · industry · shareholders · financialization · golden parachute · stockholder · shareholder value · bottom line · subsidiary · enterprise · greed · wage inequality · laissez faire · conglomerate · greenwashing · neoliberalism · trickle down · labor exploitation
corporate capitalismsocialism
Communal economic control
communism · worker ownership · worker cooperatives · collective ownership · state socialism
corporate capitalismsmall business
Modest independent commercial venture
sole proprietorship · cottage industry · local enterprise · family business · localism
corporate capitalismgift economy
Giving without explicit repayment
subsistence economy · social enterprise · nonprofit sector · barter economy · mutual aid
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