But an airline deal it struck last year symbolises the interlocking business interests of Hong Kong and China.
With the web of interlocking business relationships that is the norm among modern firms, a fault at a big data-processing firm that never actually interacts with customers can damage the reputation of all sorts of companies who draw from and feed into this supplier.
"If [50 Cent] has a managerial role, interlocking business relationships, or if he's on the board, the company could be dragged into a suit as well," Andrew Stoltmann told the site.
You said that there were two Americas, one rich, one poor; that there was an interlocking business and political elite running the empire, the country: That the system was unsustainable and headed for collapse.
Out of the endless stream of swabs and fractured bones, the snapshots pile up: the interlocking patronage networks of politicians, narcos and the business elite; the malleable police force, the crowds of economic migrants, the smouldering dumps, the shanty towns, the workers sacked for union organising in the globalised assembly plants.
More often sport is simply mundane, a business of interlocking competencies.
Toyota, Honda and Nissan are all involved in webs of interlocking shareholdings with their business partners and suppliers.
Now, however, as Ms. Stewart finds herself defending her image, the interlocking nature of the business may prove to be a vulnerability.
This paper explores some of the implications for the idea of business strategy of the networks of interlocking interdependencies which comprise the business landscape.
The standard approach used to model interlocks in the business and management literature is to treat each interlock of a network as an independent data point.
