西方跨国公司的对外直接投资活动由来已久,但是,全球范围内对企业经营活动进行一体化部署则是从战后、特别是80年代以来才开始的。这种全球战略活动的范围、内容和方式,都与传统跨国公司的对外直接投资大不相同,它使西方跨国公司超越一国资本主义范围,成为全球宏观和微观经济领域中发生相互作用和进行相互浸透的经济巨人。其结果,不仅改变了世界经济格局,也使国际分工体系发生了一系列重大变化。 Western foreign direct investment activities of multinational corporations have a long history. However, the integrated deployment of business activities worldwide started only after the war, and especially since the 1980s. The scope, content and modalities of such global strategic activities are quite different from those of traditional multinational corporations. They make the western multinational corporations go beyond the capitalism of a country and become an interaction and conduct in the global macro and micro-economic fields Mutual penetration of the economic giant. As a result, not only has the world economic structure been changed, but also a series of major changes have taken place in the system of international division of labor.