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Article: The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
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- Business History Review
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- April 1, 2005
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The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. By Grant Fleming, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. viii + 310 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 0-521-83311-6.
In The Big End of Town, Grant Fleming, David Merrett, and Simon Ville survey the phenomenon of big business in Australia during the twentieth century, comparing its development with the growth of large firms in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. They find important differences, which they attribute to the small size of the Australian economy and the country's distance from large ...