M&A and the Transformation of Corporate Systems : Pre-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern

本研究的目的之一是明确前现代公司制度与世纪之交大合并运动所带来的现代公司制度之间的区别。我特别关注技术的变化不仅对劳动关系，而且对广义上的人际关系的影响。为此，我首先通过分析1900年至1930年间39家公司的董事和高级管理人员的职业生涯来寻找现代公司高层管理人员的变化。其次，我研究了白领或中层管理人员。在两种情况下形成。最后，我阐明了蓝领工人是如何按照等级顺序重组的，并通过福利资本主义参与到公司中来的。我们可以得出结论，前现代社会通过合并运动转变为现代社会。本研究的另一个目的是验证一个假设，即20世纪80年代以来的并购浪潮将产生与现代公司制度不同的新型公司。不幸的是，我没有足够的时间来组织这方面的研究。我差不多有了。完成了近期并购数据库的建立。然而，我只能确认自20世纪80年代以来的总体趋势，并调查几个行业的趋势。我发现，在信息技术和世界市场的新条件下，许多新型的世界公司正在出现。然而，最近的并购浪潮是否会将现代社会带入后现代社会，如果是，将朝哪个方向发展，我们需要做很多事情来回答这些问题。

One purpose of this research is to make clear the difference between the pre-modern corporate systems and the modern ones that were brought about through the great merger movement in the turn of the century. Especially I focused on what effect the changes in technologies had not only on the labor relations but also on the human relations in a wide sense. In order to do so, firstly I searched changes in the top management of modern corporations by analyzing careers of directors and officers of 39 companies from 1900 to 1930. Secondly I studied how white-collar or middle management. were formed in two cases. Finally I threw light on how blue-collar workers were reorganized in hierarchical order and were involved in corporations by means of welfare capitalism. We can conclude that the pre-modern society transformed into the modern society through the merger movement.The other purpose of this research is to verify an assumption that the waves of M&A from 1980's would produce new types of corporation, which have different corporate systems from modern ones. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to organize may research in this direction. I have almost. finished building database on recent M&A.However, I could go no further than just confirming the general tendency since 1980's and surveying trends in several industries. I found that a lot of new types of world corporation are emerging under the new condition of information technology and world market. However, we will have to do much to answer questions whether recent waves of M&A will lead the modern society to the post-modern society, and, if so, in which direction.