Big End of Town - Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Informationen zum Autor Simon Ville is Professor and Head of the School of Economics and Information Systems at the University of Wollongong. He is editor of the Australian Economic History Review and author of several publications on business in Australia, including The Rural Entrepreneurs. Klappentext This 2004 book is a comprehensive study of Australian corporate life over the past 150 years. Zusammenfassung The Big End of Town! first published in 2004! is a proper business history of twentieth-century Australia and traces the evolution of large business enterprises in Australia. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The development of large scale enterprise; 3. Identifying the corporate leaders; 4. Directions of corporate expansion; 5. Methods of corporate expansion; 6. Financing corporate strategies; 7. Corporate governance and organizational design; 8. Big business and corporate leadership in the Australian economy.

Product details

• Authors: Grant Fleming, Grant (Australian National University Fleming, Grant Merrett Flemming, David Merrett, Simon Ville
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9780521689908
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68990-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management