| 书目名称 | International Business in Australia before World War One | | 副标题 | Shaping a Multinatio | | 编辑 | Simon Ville,David Merrett | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Identifies, at a company and business level, the extent of Australia’s international connections.Highlights the extent to which international firms shaped Australian business.Provides a history of for | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Economic History | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | International business in Australia before World War One; Australian economic history; Australian busi | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0481-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-19-0483-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-19-0481-3Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500 | | issn_series | 2662-6497 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapor |
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