Hidden from View: The Multinational Enterprise in Colonial Australia

Simon Ville and David Merrett ()
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David Merrett: University of Melbourne

Chapter Chapter 3 in International Business in Australia before World War One, 2022, pp 37-62 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Multinationals were hidden from view in Australia before 1914. Few people noticed, or perhaps even cared, that they had arrived in large numbers. Not only was their presence largely overlooked by contemporaries, but the reasons that brought them to Australia and the role they played within the broader economy and specific industries were little understood by later generations, issues which will be discussed in Chaps. 6 , 7 , and 8 . This chapter, however, shifts from the examination of flows of capital as a proxy for foreign firms, discussed in Chap. 2 , to providing a platform for understanding more about the diverse nature of MNEs arriving and operating in Australia up to 1914, whose evolution will be taken up in Chaps. 4 and 5 .

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0481-3_3

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