The Development of Large Scale Enterprise in Australia, 1910-64.(Brief Article)

Research about the rise of large-scale enterprise has concentrated on the world's leading industrial economies particularly the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan. [1] By way of contrast, this essay studies the evolution of large business enterprises in an economy at the 'periphery' of the world's economic system rather than at the 'centre'. Australia has been an outlier from the major industrial economies in many respects. Its integration into the international economy was facilitated by the new technologies of transport and communications, notably the steamship, r