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The Network of Global Corporate Control

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This chapter is based on the paper (Vitali et al 2011) and partly on (Vitali 2010). The copyright of some of the images belongs to PLoS ONE. Note that in order to make the chapter self-consistent and self-supporting, some redundancies with Chaps. 1 and 2 are taken into account.

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    A list of acronyms can be found in front matter of this book.

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    Consult http://www.bvdep.com/orbis.html.

  3. 3.

    See also the discussion given in Sect. 1.2.2 on p. 10.

  4. 4.

    Again, recall the discussion in Sect. 1.2.2 on p. 10.

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Glattfelder, J.B. (2013). The Network of Global Corporate Control. In: Decoding Complexity. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33424-5_4

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