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Exploring Global Corporate Networks: Insights and Perspectives

Uncover the dynamics of transnational corporate networks, examining power structures and relationships within the global business community. Dive into the interlocking systems and class hegemony shaping corporate influence in a changing world economy. Analyze key players and policy influencers driving neoliberal globalization, shedding light on the evolving landscape of corporate connections and strategic alliances.

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Exploring Global Corporate Networks: Insights and Perspectives

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  1. Representing Spatiality in theTransnational Corporate Network William K. Carroll Sociology Department University of Victoria wcarroll@uvic.ca February, 2004

  2. Corporate interlocks trace two forms of capitalist power: • Strategic, allocative and operational control within the circuitry of accumulation (e.g., finance capital as an coalescence of industrial and financial forms) • Class hegemony: the integration of top capitalists and organic intellectuals into a business community; the reach of that community into civil society and states.

  3. Carroll and Fennema (2002): ‘Is there a transnational business community?’ • modest increase in transnational interlocking (particularly within Europe), but also • persistence of national specificities, and • a trend away from the strong inter-corporate ties that have been distinctive of organized capitalism. • We concluded that a transnational business community, centred on the North Atlantic, is in the making, with practices centred primarily around class formation: construction of community and hegemony.

  4. Carroll and Carson (2003):Forging a new hegemony • broadened the network analysis to include 350 corporations as well as five policy-planning groups – important promoters of neoliberal globalization: • World Economic Forum, • International Chamber of Commerce, • Trilateral Commission, • Bilderberg Conference and • World Business Council for Sustainable Development

  5. Parameters of the Present Analysis • 622 corporate directors(Carroll and Carson’s global corporate elite) -400who direct only corporations in a single country 222 corporate directors with transnational reach. • Of the 222, 94 are transnational corporate linkers 128 are not transnational corporate linkers, but sit on one or more global policy board. • The 94 transnational corporate linkers carry a corporate network of 122 corporations.

  6. Participation in the Transnational Corporate Network by Country

  7. Participation in the TN Network by City

  8. Three Components of Degree Centrality: Means by Country

  9. The Transnational Corporate Network, Coded by Country of Domicile • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  10. The Dominant Component of Primary Interlocks • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy. • Circles: industrials, Triangles: financials

  11. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing all Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  12. Central Cities in the Inter-Urban Network City Inter-Urban Interlocks 1 Paris 74 2 London 41 3 Brussels 36 4 Frankfurt 34 5 Munich 29 6 NYC 28 7 Hague-Rotterdam 25 8 Montreal 22 • Zurich 20 10 Dusseldorf 18 11 Bonn 16 12 Einhoven 16 13 Essen 13 14 Hamburg 12 15 Chicago 11

  13. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing all Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  14. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing 2+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  15. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing 3+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  16. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing 4+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  17. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing 5+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  18. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing 6+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  19. The Inter-Urban Corporate Network, Showing 7+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico

  20. The Network of 187 Corporations and Five Policy-Planning Boards • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Beige: Spain, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico, Deep Green: South Korea, Burgundy: Turkey, Light Pink: South Africa. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  21. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network, Showing all Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Beige: Spain, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico, Deep Green: South Korea, Burgundy: Turkey, Light Pink: South Africa. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  22. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network, Showing 2+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Light Blue: Switzerland, Yellow: Sweden, Light Green: Italy, Teal: Japan, Brown: Australia, Purple: Hong Kong, Olive: Mexico, Deep Green: South Korea, Burgundy: Turkey, Light Pink: South Africa. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  23. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network, Showing 5+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Orange: Netherlands, Pink: Germany, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Teal: Japan, Purple: Hong Kong. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  24. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network, Showing 12+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Grey: UK, Red: Canada, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Teal: Japan. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  25. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network, Showing 15+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux, Teal: Japan. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  26. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network, Showing 25+ Ties • Key: Blue: US, Green: France, Black: Belgium/Lux. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  27. The Inter-Urban Corporate-Policy Group Network: 31 Interlocks • Key: Blue: US. Policy Groups are in Diamonds.

  28. Discussion

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