AUF WIEDERSEHEN, GERMANY INC.

摘要

In the end, Man-nesmann went quietly. No big bank used its financial clout to repel Vodafone AirTouch plc's hostile takeover. No politician or labor boss intervened. Germany Inc., the protective net of cross-shareholdings and regulations that long shielded the country from the cruel tide of globalization, is dead. Vodafone Chief Executive Chris Gent merely laid flowers on its grave by taking over Mannesmann.