Established TNC’s, and their home countries, will need to adjust to this new constellation of forces and its implications for the world market. As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France’s Alcatel and America’s Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.
上述反应中还夹杂着由于新兴市场跨国企业的崛起而导致的保护性行动，这些新兴市场企业成了“经济舞台上新的对手。”老牌的跨国企业和它们的源起国需要为迎接新势力的挑战作出调整，还要适应这些新贵企业为世界市场带来的变化。正如我们在很多情况下所领悟到的，适应新的变化并不容易：只要对比一下法国阿尔卡特和美国朗讯合并与中海油收购雪佛龙或者米塔尔收购阿赛洛所引起的截然不同的反应，这一点就再清楚不过了。