Book contents
- Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices
- Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II The Emergence of Group Complexity
- 2 What Causes Group Complexity?
- 3 The Emergence of Corporate Groups
- Part III Decomposing Corporate Groups
- Part IV Deficiencies of Formal Approaches to Group Transparency in EU Law
- Part V Systems Approach as a More Comprehensive Concept toward Group Transparency
- Part VI Results
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - What Causes Group Complexity?
from Part II - The Emergence of Group Complexity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2022
Book contents
- Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices
- Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Setting the Scene
- Part II The Emergence of Group Complexity
- 2 What Causes Group Complexity?
- 3 The Emergence of Corporate Groups
- Part III Decomposing Corporate Groups
- Part IV Deficiencies of Formal Approaches to Group Transparency in EU Law
- Part V Systems Approach as a More Comprehensive Concept toward Group Transparency
- Part VI Results
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses a set of complexity drivers and the facilitators and cognitive constraints confronted with when facing a complex subject such as multinational corporate groups. I argue that part of the challenge of determining the nature of a corporate group is the tension between formal and informal perceptions of corporate control, in the game played by corporations and intermediaries and by national legislators amending legal concepts based on depictions that do not necessarily reflect today’s business realities.
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- Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices , pp. 29 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022