The Network of Global Corporate Control By a group of  147 !!!! In detail, 4/10 nearly  of the control over the economic value of TNCs in the world is held, via a complicated web of ownership relations, by a group of  147 TNCs in the core, which has almost full control over itself. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025995