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在美国的许多名牌跨国公司纷纷收缩的同时,数以百计的中型公司正在国外蓬勃发展。宾夕法尼亚州的阿美特克公司正在意大利生产真空吸尘器。纽约州的帕尔公司已开始在英国制造先进的血液过滤器。加利福尼亚州的应用材料公司正在日本组装制造电脑芯片的机器。这批美国有冲劲和进取心的公司通常集中力量生产一种单一的、自己擅长的产品。它们比许多小型出口商要大而且先进,正在世界各地开设工厂、实验室和销售点。当欧洲和日本的经济增长缓慢时,美国的出口还是保持了适度的增长,这其中一部分要归功于这些微型跨国公司。这些微型跨国公司的秘密是:它们的产品在技术、
While many famous multinational companies in the United States have contracted, hundreds of medium-sized companies are flourishing abroad. The Ametek company in Pennsylvania is producing vacuum cleaners in Italy. Pall Corporation of New York State has begun manufacturing advanced blood filters in the United Kingdom. The Applied Materials Corporation of California is assembling a computer chip manufacturing machine in Japan. This group of aggressive and enterprising companies in the United States usually concentrate on producing a single product that they are good at. They are larger and more advanced than many small exporters and are setting up factories, laboratories, and point-of-sales locations around the world. When the economic growth in Europe and Japan was slow, the U.S. exports maintained modest growth, which was partly due to these micro-transnational corporations. The secret of these micro-transnational corporations is that their products are in technology,