60年代以来,随着国际服务贸易的崛起,美国服务业的领潮人物萨姆·沃尔顿的业绩逐渐引人注目,并最终确定其服务业之父的地位。 二战结束后的数10年里,美国人的工作和生活方式发生了深刻变革,沃尔顿发现自己在许多方面处于这种变革的中心。他具有预见事物发展趋势的天赋,而且可能比其他任何商界人士都更理解正在席卷美国——尤其是城市以外的地方——的社会和人口发展潮流所暗含 Since the 1960s, with the rise of international trade in services, the performance of Sam Walton, the leading American service industry, has been attracting attention and eventually the father of service industry. In the decades since the end of World War II, profound changes have taken place in the way Americans work and live, and Walton finds himself in many ways at the center of such change. He has the talent to anticipate the trends in things and may understand more than any other business community about the social and demographic trends that are sweeping across the United States, especially outside of cities