Table 2.

Analytical levels of corporate power. This table summarizes different analytical levels that might provide a suitable starting point for the study of corporate power

Analytical level	Focus	Examples of direct power relations	Examples of indirect power relations
Dyadic level	Relationship between individual actors (e.g., firms and stakeholders	Bargaining and negotiating power, both up- and downwards	Agenda-setting, management of expectations
Network level	Specific supply chains and/or firms	Gate keeping, central positions within the network	ownership of central technologies and trademark rights
Industry level	Industries and sectors	Codification of best practices, monopolization	Setting of informal standards, branding and re-branding of products, agenda-setting
National level	Interaction between globally operating corporations and nation states	Investor power, arbitration tribunals, special tax agreements, lobbying	threat of exit, individualized standards in special economic zones
Global level	Global phenomena of concentration and distribution	Wealth and poverty chains, corporate control networks, race for the best location	Contestation of local standards and regulations, corporate technology as a signifier of progress