A Movement toward "Transnational"Firms and Global Reorganizationin the World Steel Industry

自上世纪90年代初以来，米塔尔钢铁就开始在全球范围内收购濒临倒闭的钢铁公司，并于2006年以安赛乐米塔尔公司（ArcelorMittal Corp.）的名义成为全球最大的钢铁公司。本研究旨在分析其全球战略、全球公司结构、管理组织及其对世界钢铁行业重组的影响。本研究发现并分析了以下几点。(1)米塔尔钢铁的全球收购战略主要是在其积累的经营资源的基础上逐步实施的，目的是成为世界钢铁市场的主导企业和稳定器。(2)安赛乐米塔尔的商业模式追求“全球多元化、一体化的商业模式”，以子公司之间的知识、技能、信息网络为支撑，我们按照C.A. Bartlett和s . Ghoshal的定义将其定义为“跨国”全球性公司。(3) 21世纪初以来，这种“跨国”全球企业对全球竞争企业的全球战略产生了更大的影响，并加速了世界钢铁行业的重组。

Mittal Steel had started world-wide acquisitions of failing steel companies since the early 1990s and became the world biggest steel company as ArcelorMittal Corp. in 2006. This research aims to analyze its global strategy, global corporate structure, administrative organization and its impact on reorganization of world steel industry . The points that this research discovered and analyzed are as follows. (1) Mittal Steel’ s global acquisition strategy was mainly carried out by step-by-step on the basis of its accumulated operating resources for it to become a dominant company and stabilizer in the world steel market. (2) ArcelorMittal’ s business model pursues “a global diversified, integrated business model” and is supported by knowledge, skill, information network among subsidiary companies, which we define as “transnational” global company following C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal. (3) This “transnational” global firm has given much greater impacts on global strategies of competing global companies and accelerated reorganization of the world steel industry since early 2000s and is expected to do so.