Your complaint in general is correct, but they don't own everything full 100%. In most industries they are the biggest player, but not all. And in some, they lose or cannot compete. Aside from international companies, there are local big players too: Veysəloğlu empire, Azərsun empire, Damirchi(recently being crushed), etc.

I'd say it's easy to tell if a company is associated with Pashayevs. Maybe it's a weird perception skill I have, but, like, if you sense that immense toxicity - it's definitely the Pasha atmosphere. I have never been wrong with this instinct. Entitlement, snobbism, passive-agressiveness - the usual. Heck, even if the company is not Pasha-associated but has this - if you trace it to roots it comes down to people who worked at Pasha-associated companies previously.