The Development of Large Scale Enterprise in Australia, 1910–64

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8419954
AutoresVille (0000-0001-8314-6002, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia), Simon Ville, D T Merrett (b University of Melbourne), David Merrett (0000-0003-0904-0474, The University of Melbourne)
Año2000
Volumen42
Número3
Páginas13-46
Fecha de publicación2000-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBusiness History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-6791 • E-ISSN: 1743-7938
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00076790000000265
OpenAlexW2058847640
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

This essay explores the development of large scale enterprise in Australia, an economy in which resource industries were unusually important and with a very small domestic market. Using asset size as a yardstick, the authors construct a series of the 100 largest firms operating in the years 1910, 1930, 1952 and 1964. These lists allow the identification of firms by industry and whether they were foreign-owned. Cross-country comparisons are also made. Further, the authors discuss the more qualitative aspects of Australian large scale enterprise in the context of whether these firms approximated the competitive capitalism of the United States or the family capitalism of Britain. They concluded that Australian firms displayed little of the dynamism of the leading firms in the United States. Protectionist government policies explain part of this behavioural trait

Business · Capitalism · Context (archaeology · Dynamism · Economics · Economies of scale · Economy · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Protectionism · Scale (ratio · Yardstick · Australian History and Society · Marketing