corporate control
Company power structure
Corporate control is the power to direct a company's decisions and strategy, typically held by majority shareholders, a board of directors, or a parent company.
Battles for corporate control play out through proxy fights, hostile takeovers, and buyouts: The hedge fund sought corporate control through a tender offer.
The phrase also describes the broader phenomenon of corporations wielding influence over politics, media, or daily life: Critics decried corporate control of the food supply.
- takeoverAssuming command of something
- hostile takeoverUnwanted corporate buyout attempt
- mergerCorporate combination
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- tender offerPublic share purchase proposal
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- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- corporate structuresubsidiary, parent company, holding company, affiliate, branch
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- farm problemssoil erosion, soil depletion, water pollution, fertilizer runoff, overgrazing
- monopoliesmonopoly, Standard Oil, AT&T, De Beers, Ma Bell
- neocolonialismneocolonialism, debt trap, resource extraction, economic exploitation, foreign debt
corporate controlgrassroots democracy
Political engagement from ordinary citizens
worker control · popular sovereignty · democratic control · community control · self-governance
corporate controlworker ownership
Staff holding company stakes
public ownership · collective ownership · socialism · nationalization · mutualism
corporate controlsmall business
Modest independent commercial venture
local enterprise · cottage industry · family business · sole proprietorship · decentralization
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