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Megacorporation, mega-corporation, or megacorp, a term originally coined by Alfred Eichner in his book The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics [1] but popularized by William Gibson, [2] [3] derives from the combination of the prefix mega-with the word corporation.
A keiretsu (Japanese: 系列, literally system, series, grouping of enterprises, order of succession) is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings that dominated the Japanese economy in the second half of the 20th century.
Sprawlgangs & Megacorps is a supplement describing 20 street gangs known as "sprawlgangs", 16 ruthless megacorporations that wield enormous power, four law enforcement organizations, one terrorist organization, and seven notable non-player characters. [1]
The monolithic "enemies" of the Shadowrun world (borrowing heavily from cyberpunk mythos) are the corporations, dubbed "megacorporations", "megacorps", or simply "megas" or "corps" for short. Megacorporations in the 21st-century are global, with all but the smallest corps owning multiple subsidiaries and divisions around the world.
It also opened the user to suggestion and manipulation by the megacorps. Before long the megacorps became corrupt crime Syndicates, fighting amongst each other for monopoly over CHIP manufacturing and control over populations. [2] The game puts the player in charge of a self-named corporation in a near-future cyberpunk-style world in the year ...
Marunouchi headquarters for the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, 1909. Zaibatsu (財閥, lit. ' asset clique ') is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial vertically integrated business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period to World War II.
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking.
Cyberspace is a role-playing game that uses the cyberpunk atmosphere engendered in the science fiction novels of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Walter John Williams.The primary setting is a dystopian urban sprawl around San Francisco in the year 2090 in a world that is controlled by powerful "MegaCorps".