“…Credible commitment to corporate purpose, therefore, requires identification of corporate ownership that promotes and supports its fulfilment (Villalonga, 2018)). An example of this, commonplace in Denmark and Germany, are ‘industrial foundations’, which are foundations and trusts that are not simply philanthropic in nature, but also own companies (Børsting and Thomsen, 2017), such as Bertelsmann, Bosch, Carlsberg, Ikea, Tata, and Velux.…”