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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.
Never before has a book been published which provides such a comprehensive study of Australian corporate life over the past 150 years. Written by a team of economic historians Corporate Leadership in Australia is the first proper business history of Australia. This book traces the evolution of large business enterprises in Australia, from the giants of the nineteenth century – such as Dalgety’s, CSR and BHP – to the contemporary leaders in Newscorp and Telstra. It delves into why the market leaders became the major players, examines what was crucial to their success, and their roles in leading the Australian economy. By investigating their evolution this book provides a useful evaluation of the factors that have led to their competitive success and provides an essential guide for all businesses in Australia and beyond.
This richly illustrated book is a detailed history of a uniquely
Australasian institution, the stock and station agency. The stock
and station agent was a respected and influential figure,
coordinating farmers and connecting them to the outside world of
banks, wool buyers and government agencies in Australasia and
overseas, whose impact on export-led growth cannot be
underestimated. Simon Ville examines the ways in which stock and
station agents grew from their beginnings in the 1840s as pastoral
finance companies to offer a wide range of support services to
remote and inexperienced farming communities. In the twentieth
century, the leading agents expanded their range of activities and
became some of Australasia's earliest nationwide firms and biggest
businesses. The Rural Entrepreneurs provides essential insights
into understanding Australasia's rural history and economic
development up until the end of the twentieth century.
Never before had a book been published which provides such a
comprehensive study of Australian corporate leadership over the
past 100 years. Written by a team of economic historians The Big
End of Town, first published in 2004, is a proper business history
of twentieth-century Australia. This book traces the evolution of
large business enterprises in Australia, from the giants of the
nineteenth century - such as Dalgety's, CSR and BHP - to the
contemporary leaders in Newscorp and Qantas. It delves into why the
market leaders became the major players, examines what was crucial
to their success, and their roles in leading the Australian
economy. By investigating their evolution this book provides a
useful evaluation of the factors that have led to their competitive
success and provides an essential guide for all businesses in
Australia and beyond.
Inter-organisational activity, whether public and private sector
collaborations, university and industry partnerships or joint
ventures between businesses, has benefits that range from increased
market efficiency to innovative product development. Yet too often
such activity can founder under the weight of differing
expectations and divergent interests. How Organisations Connect
shows how to avoid the pitfalls and make partnerships work. The
contributors, experts from a range of disciplines, demonstrate the
importance of developing strategies and establishing
infrastructures that enable organisations to connect, and
communicate, effectively. Their insights are backed up by case
studies that include an investigation of three government and
community sector partnerships in Australia, Canada and New Zealand;
analysis of what makes a university-industry collaboration
successful; an exploration of the changing relations between
central banks and governments in Australia and New Zealand
throughout the twentieth century; and a study of recent innovative
developments in the supply chain networks of some British consumer
industries. Through economic and business theory, historical
perspectives and contemporary evidence How Organisations Connect
presents both fascinating research findings and practical advice.
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