International Business in Australia Before World War One: Shaping a Multinational Economy

by Simon Ville and David Merrett

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811904804
• ISBN13: 9789811904806
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.3"