The Boston Consulting Group lists the rise of diversified global conglomerates as one of five trends that will shape the future of business.

波士顿咨询集团将全球综合性企业的增加作为未来商业的五大趋势之一。

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The region's business scene, he says, remains dominated by old-fashioned, mediocre, sprawling conglomerates, run at the whims of ageing patriarchal owners.

他说，这个地区的商业景观还是由老式的、平庸的和无计划扩展的财团控制；而这些财团由年老的家族父辈按其喜好管理着。

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But state firms hung on to a 37% share and India's big family-owned conglomerates, known as business houses, actually increased theirs (see left-hand chart).

而此后国企销售额所占比例一直保持在37%左右，而印度商行，即大型家族式综合企业，其比例却不降反增。

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Some have their own planes for jetting between the churches and the offices of their sprawling business conglomerates.

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Mrs Marin links this to a second issue, that of the behind-the-scenes influence of business conglomerates on the government.

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Now Seoul is pushing its largest business conglomerates, or chaebol, to restructure.

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