企业集团是社会化大生产的产物。伴随着我国经济体制改革纵深拓展及市场功能的增强,近几年来,这一新型的经济组织在我国发展甚快。理论界对此经济现象作了见仁见智的热烈研讨。现将主要观点概述如下: (一)企业集团的概念 “企业集团”是对较高层次的企业联合体的一种特称,它所反映的是商品经济发展过程中企业重组生产的经济现象。目前国内对企业集团的概念有十多种表述,主要的有:(1)由若干个经 Enterprise groups are the product of socialized mass production. With the deepening of China’s economic reform and the enhancement of market functions, this new type of economic organization has developed rapidly in our country in recent years. Theorists made a lively discussion about this economic phenomenon. The main points are summarized as follows: 1. The concept of an enterprise group An “enterprise group” is a special name for a higher-level enterprise consortium, which reflects the economic phenomenon of reorganization of enterprises in the process of commodity economy development. At present, there are more than ten kinds of representations on the concept of enterprise groups in China. The main ones are: (1)