International Business in Australia before World War One - Shaping a Multinational Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914. Multinational enterprise arrived predominantly from Britain, but other sender nations included the USA, France, Germany, New Zealand, and Japan. Their firms spread out across Australia from mining and pastoral communities, to portside industries and CBD precincts, and they operated broadly across mining, trading, shipping, insurance, finance, and manufacturing. They were a remarkably diverse population of firms by size, organisational form, and longevity. This is a rare study of the impact of multinationals on a host nation, particularly before World War One, and that focuses on a successful resource-based economy. Deploying a database of more than 600 firms, supported by contemporary archives and publications, the work reveals how multinational influence was contested by domestic enterprise, other foreign firms, and the strategic investments of governments in network industries. Nonetheless, foreign agency - particularly investment, knowledge and entrepreneurship - mattered in the economic development of Australia in the nineteenth as well as the twentieth centuries. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in Australian and international economic and business history, the history of economic growth and scholars of international business.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Release date:	October 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Simon Ville • David Merrett
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	249
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-981-19-0480-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > International business Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International finance Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Promotions
LSN:	981-19-0480-4
Barcode:	9789811904806

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