[ghaff]

Well, many of those BigCorps simply went out of business over the years. Kodak in Rochester was a pretty good bet until it wasn't. Not so much culture as business realities.

Japan has been more stable in that regard. More stability but probably also fewer real opportunities.

[jack_tripper]

The successor to Kodak is Eastman chemicals which is doing quite well.

[ghaff]

Kodak actually spun out their chemical company quite a while before things really went south with film. The real problem was that Kodak had a huge film-related consumables business and, to a first approximation, that just went away.