SOUTH KOREA'S new president, Roh Moo-hyun, was elected in part because his promise to reform the country's large conglomerate groups, the chaebol, appealed to younger voters.
But, he argues, conglomerate groups, such as business corporations, that possess internal decision structures and stated policies, are capable of actions that we can properly represent as the intentional actions of the group.
The mammoth Hyundai conglomerate, a group of South Korean companies that make everything from cars to steel to seafaring supertankers, bought bankrupt Kia Motors in 1998.
It provides one example of how corporate India might evolve, as it globalises its operations, professionalises its management and modernises its technologies, while remaining a family conglomerate.The group was founded in the 1920s by Karam Chand Thapar, who passed it on to his son, Lalit Mohan.
This Days Inn was a franchise hotel in a large conglomerate hotel group.
Since 2015 they are part of Alphabet, a multinational conglomerate that groups Google products and others such as Nest Labs, Jigsaw, Verily, etc.
The chief object of his ire is the country's biggest media conglomerate, the Dogan group, named after its Murdoch-like owner, Aydin Dogan.
Liem Sioe Liong, the Chinese owner of Indonesia's largest conglomerate, the Salim group, has not been seen in the country since May.
They fell out soon after inheriting India's biggest conglomerate, the Reliance group of companies, when their father died in 2002.
As president, his conglomerate, the Tiko group, elbowed its way into construction, radio and television, rice, energy and a dozen other things.
