Control

Control describes a broad relationship in which a person or company can exercise significant or decisive influence over another company. This influence may result from shareholdings, voting rights, group structures, contractual arrangements, or other legal and economic dependencies.

In the North Data API, Control is the broader relation role group for control-related relationships. This group includes, among others, direct and indirect parent companies, general control, domination, profit transfer, profit pooling, consolidation in a parent company, company lease, general partner roles, and branch offices.

The term is therefore broader than one specific legal form of control. It is used to group different types of controlling, group-related, or economically dependent relationships into one API category.