The past two and a half decades have been good for big business. While the size of the private sector as a percentage of OECD economies has held relatively steady since the mid-1990s, the share of companies with more than $1bn in annual revenue has grown by 60 per cent since 1995. The big have got bigger, and the rich have got richer. But behind that headline trend, there is a great deal of geographic and socio-economic nuance, as a new McKinsey Global Institute white paper shows.
過去的25年對大企業是有利的。盡管自上世紀90年代中期以來,私營部門在經合組織(OECD)經濟體中所占的比重一直相對穩定,但自1995年以來,年收入超過10億美元的企業所占比重上升了60%。大的變得更大,富的變得更富。但正如麥肯錫全球研究院(McKinsey Global Institute)最新發布的一份白皮書所顯示的那樣,在這一大趨勢的背后,在地理和社會經濟方面存在著許多細微差別。