1991年世界100家最大的公司中,42家是美国公司,38家日本公司,10家英国公司,剩下的迅10家为德国、瑞士和澳大利亚公司。自从日本以其令人瞩目的经济增长震撼世界,并且在20世纪速成为一个世界主要工业强国以来,美、日跨国公司之间出现的难分轩轾的竞赛毫不令人惊奇。 60年代日本曾以比西方任何发达国家都快1倍多的速度发展。日本实际国民生产总值的年平 Of the 100 largest companies in the world in 1991, 42 were American, 38 Japanese and 10 British and the remaining 10 were German, Swiss and Australian companies. Since Japan shook the world with its remarkable economic growth and quickly became a major industrial power in the world in the 20th century, it is not surprising that the uncompromising competition between multinationals in the United States and Japan has emerged. In the 1960s, Japan was more than twice as fast as any developed country in the West. The annual average of Japan’s real gross domestic product