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The Colonel · 06-14-2019, 10:08 AM

it's worth noting that having one person in charge of a corporation is quite cinematic - even the celebrity owner/founder/CEO tends to have to answer to a board "offscreen" in real life and a truly massive corporate empire is likely to be appropriately Byzantine in its higher reaches. Whilst there may be a single CEO with absolute day to day control, there will also be a CFO, CIO and suchlike, not to mention the shareholders (and I don't mean John B. Daytrader, I mean the big merchant banks that hold enough stock to fly the share price into the ground). The CEO may have the potential to do all sorts of things … but not for very long without the support of his peers.
In fact, a big enough conglomerate could well have problems telling its right hand what its left hand is doing in some circumstances - in RPG terms this can make for great plot potential.

06-14-2019, 10:08 AM	#6
The Colonel Join Date: Jul 2006	Re: Representing a large corporate empire it's worth noting that having one person in charge of a corporation is quite cinematic - even the celebrity owner/founder/CEO tends to have to answer to a board "offscreen" in real life and a truly massive corporate empire is likely to be appropriately Byzantine in its higher reaches. Whilst there may be a single CEO with absolute day to day control, there will also be a CFO, CIO and suchlike, not to mention the shareholders (and I don't mean John B. Daytrader, I mean the big merchant banks that hold enough stock to fly the share price into the ground). The CEO may have the potential to do all sorts of things … but not for very long without the support of his peers. In fact, a big enough conglomerate could well have problems telling its right hand what its left hand is doing in some circumstances - in RPG terms this can make for great plot potential.