marcdotson / category-captainship

An empirical generalization of the category captainship paper.
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Composition of Captain and Validator #71

Closed cdbale closed 2 years ago

cdbale commented 4 years ago

Some categories have multiple captains/validators, and sometimes it looks like the same company (or a subsidiary) act as both captain and validator. For example, the captain listed for candy is Hershey/Wrigley, and the validator is Mars/Cadbury. Wrigley is part of Mars, and Hershey owns the Cadbury brand in the U.S. This might be interesting to analyze in comparison to categories with different captain and validator.