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Some Propositions of Approaches for Measuring Indirect Control Power of Firms and Mutual Connections in Corporate Shareholding Structures

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This paper discusses some game-theoretical methods that use power indices for measuring the indirect control power of firms and mutual connections in complex corporate shareholding networks. Only a few of the methods considered in the literature so far measure the control power of all firms involved in shareholding networks; meanwhile, none of them regard measuring the importance of linkages. The intention of this article is first to propose a modification of the Mercik-Łobos and Mercik-Stach methods using the Banzhaf index to measure the direct and indirect control of investors and stock companies. Second, having already estimated the control power of nodes (firms) in a network, we consider the relationship of this power to the power of the linkages that connect the companies in directed networks. Then, we present our own idea of how such link’s power can be measured. We regard to the power of the link in relation to the firms as well as (more significantly) in relation to the entire corporate network.

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This research is financed by the following funds: “Subsidy for maintenance and development of research potential” (No. 16.16.200.396) of AGH University of Science and Technology, MUR, research grants from the University of Bergamo, and research funds from WSB University in Wroclaw.

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  2. WSB University in Wroclaw, Fabryczna 29/31, 53-609, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jacek Mercik

  3. Department of Management, Economics, and Quantitative Methods, University of Bergamo, Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127, Bergamo, Italy

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Stach, I., Mercik, J., Bertini, C. (2020). Some Propositions of Approaches for Measuring Indirect Control Power of Firms and Mutual Connections in Corporate Shareholding Structures. In: Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R., Mercik, J., Motylska-Kuźma, A. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62245-2_8

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