ABSTRACT
An equally peculiar literature on multinationals exists in which overseas industries involve no politics, no economic rivalries, and ultimately no problem except that of organizing work loads and designing total human resources for predetermined, predisposed ends. The benign, benevolent image of multinationalism is a direct outgrowth of the rise of the business school approach to problems of multinationalism. This chapter consists of a series of scenarios that suggest that multinational corporations will remain a key factor for the balance of the twentieth century. To speak of multinationalization as a humanization process, without once addressing the problems of disequilibrium brought about by the relative strengths and weaknesses of the national structures that underwrite and underlie these multinationals, is a profound weakness. In Japan, where the national structure determines the character and velocity of multinational expansion and growth, one still has to deal with the question of state power.
