Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david merrett”
Skip side bar filters

  • Global Enterprise in Australia

    International Business Down Under since Federation

    by Simon Ville, Pierre van der Eng, André Sammartino, David Merrett, Monica Keneley ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    For two centuries, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have arrived in waves on Australia’s shores. Highly visible and influential household names among them – Ford, IBM, Kodak, Electrolux, ANZ – but also many smaller, lesser-known enterprises. Foreign MNEs in Australia today account for almost half of our top 2,000 firms and control over A$1.4 trillion of assets. There is much we do not understand ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • International Business in Australia before World War One

    Shaping a Multinational Economy

    by Simon Ville, David Merrett ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Business Institutions and Behaviour in Australia

    Edited by David Merrett ...
    This study of Australian business institutions and practices places the rise of big business in Australia in a comparative context through a study of its 100 largest firms in the first six and a half decades of the 20th century. Unlike many of the wealthy economies of the northern hemisphere, Australia's lists of the 100 largest firms were dominated up to World War II by those from the resource ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Breadline Britain

    The Rise of Mass Poverty

    by Stewart Lansley, Joanna Mack ...
    Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs unmet.Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • In Place of Fear II

    A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland

    by Jim Sillars ...
    Jim Sillars argues convincingly that the referendum gives the Scottish people the power to create a better country, helps renew our belief in socialism as the answer to the economic and social crisis facing the country, and challenges the idea in the Yes campaign that independence means “change but no change” and that a Yes voter endorses Alex Salmond and the SNP. There is a far more radical road, ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Hard Labour

    wage theft in the age of inequality

    by Ben Schneiders ...
    A startling investigation of how some of Australia’s best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.Whether it’s at McDonald’s, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billions of dollars have been unlawfully taken from workers at countless businesses, large and small.Hard ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Irish Economy—Past, Present, and Future

    Causes of Irish Economic Recessions and Solutions for Growth

    by André Hakizimana ...
    Irelands economic policies have not served it well in recent years, but not many people understand why the countrys people continue to suffer. Andr Hakizimana, a resident of Ireland who holds a masters degree in economics, examines the countrys economic policies and provides solutions for growth.This study does not intend to criticize Irish policy makers, but instead seeks to address the origins ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Reviving Local Authority Housing Delivery

    Challenging Austerity Through Municipal Entrepreneurialism

    by Janice Morphet, Ben Clifford ...
    This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery.Capturing this moment within its live context, the authors examine the ways that local authorities are moving towards increased financial independence based on their own activities to implement new forms and means of housebuilding ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Dog Days

    Australia After the Boom

    by Ross Garnaut ...
    Series Book 3 - Redback
    A blueprint for the nation after the boom.Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead?In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what we can expect next and the tough choices we need to make to survive the new economic conditions. Are we clever enough – ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Paint Your Town Red

    How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

    by Rhian Jones, Matthew Brown ...
    Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level through the experience ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Austerity and Recovery in Ireland

    Europe's Poster Child and the Great Recession

    Edited by William K. Roche, Philip J. O'Connell, Andrea Prothero ...
    In international commentary and debate on the effects of the Great Recession and austerity, Ireland has been hailed as the poster child for economic recovery and regeneration out of deep economic and fiscal contraction. While the genesis of Ireland's financial, economic, and fiscal crisis has been covered in the literature, no systematic analysis has yet been devoted to the period of austerity, to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Over Here and Undertaxed: Multinationals, Tax Avoidance and You

    by Richard Murphy ...
    Tax has rocketed to the top of the news agenda. When Amazon, Google and Starbucks were pulled up in front of the Public Accounts Committee, many were stunned at how little corporation tax they paid (if at all) in a time of austerity and government cuts. How can a tax gap of �12 billion be justified, when a CEO can take home $101 million a year? There is a growing realization that maybe we aren't ... Read more

    $3.40 USD