International business in Australia before World War One shaping a multinational economy / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Ville, Simon.
• 其他作者：
  • Merrett, David.
  • SpringerLink (Online service)
• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave studies in economic history.
• 出版： Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in economic history,
• 主題： International business enterprises--Australia--History. , Corporations, Foreign--Australia--History. , Economic History. , International Business. , Imperialism and Colonialism. , International Finance. , Economic Growth.
• ISBN： 9789811904813 (electronic bk.) 、 9789811904806 (paper)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Chapter 1: The international connections of the Australian colonies -- Chapter 2: Foreign investment before World War One -- Chapter 3: Hidden from view. The multinational enterprise in colonial Australia -- Chapter 4: Early entrants: MNEs in Australia, c.1820-70 -- Chapter 5: The Spread of the Multinational Economy by 1914 -- Chapter 6: Why did they come? -- Chapter 7: Where did they go? Multinationals and the development of Australia -- Chapter 8: Global Hosts -- Chapter 9: Distance no Tyranny.
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• 摘要註: "This ambitious study reshapes our understanding of the history and impact of multinational firms in Australia, and skillfully weaves the local story into a global framework." - Professor Geoff Jones, Harvard Business School "Simon Ville and David Merrett in this pioneering study show that on the eve of World War I (1914) a sizable collection of multinational enterprises, principally from the UK, with the US in second place, from a number of continental European nations (and in addition from Canada, New Zealand and Japan and other locales) had an Australian presence, beyond independent agents; the multinationals operated in many diverse sectors of the Australian economy. The authors survey the large existing literature on the course of nineteenth and early twentieth century foreign investment in Australia and conclude that before 1914 the multinational firms that they identified, counted, and classified had an important impact on Australian economic development." - Professor Mira Wilkins, Florida University 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 th
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