Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Management and Marketing

Professor David Merrett

Profile

Career History


Lecturer/senior lecturer, Department of Economic History, Monash University

Senior lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Economic History, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor, Department of Business Development & Corporate History, University of Melbourne

Associate Professor, Department of Management, University of Melbourne

Professor, Department of Management, University of Melbourne

Research Interests


Internationalisation of Australian firms
Evolution of 'big business' in Australia
Head quarter-subsidiary relations in multinationals
Principal-agent issues within firms

Qualifications


B.Ec (hons)
M.Ec. Monash University

Academic Activities


Chair of the University Archive Advisory Board
Member of the University Alumni Relations Committee

Professional Activities


Consultancies

ANZ Banking Group; ABC

Professional Memberships

ANZIBA AIB

Research

Recent Publications


Books

The big end of town: big business and corporate leadership in twentieth-century Australia, Cambridge University Press (with Grant Fleming and Simon Ville) (2004).

Business institutions and behaviour in Australia, editor, 2000

Refereed Journals

‘Australian Firms Abroad Before 1970: Why So Few, Why Those, and Why There?’, Business History, 44, 2 April, pp.65-87, (2002).

‘Australia’s Emergent Multinationals: The Legacy of Having a Natural Resource Intensive, Small and Closed Economy as Home’, International Studies in Management and Organization, (2002).

‘The State and the Finance Sector: The Evolution of Regulatory Apparatus’, Australian Economic History Review, 42, 3, November (2002), 265-81.

‘The Internationalization of Australian Banks’, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 12, 4-5, October/December (2002).

‘Human resource management practices at the Union Bank of Australia: panel evidence from the 1887-1893 entry cohorts’, Journal of Labor Economics, 2000 (with A. Seltzer)

Book Chapters

‘The development of large scale enterprise in Australia, 1910-64’, in Merrett, ed, Business institutions and behaviour in Australia, 2000 (with S. Ville)

‘Work in the financial services industry and worker monitoring: a study of the Union Bank of Australia in the 1920s’, in Merrett, ed, Business institutions and behaviour in Australia, 2000 (with A. Seltzer)

Significant Publications


Books

ANZ Bank: a history of the Australian and New Zealand Bank and its constituents, 1985

Refereed Journals

‘Australian banking practice and the crisis of 1893’, Australian Economic History Review, 1989

‘Economic growth and well-being: Melbourne 1870-1914: a comment’, Economic Record, 1977

‘The Victorian Licensing Court, 1906-68: A study of role and impact’, Australian Economic History Review, 1979

‘Preventing bank failure: could the Commercial Bank of Australia have been saved by its peers in 1893?’ Victorian Historical Journal, 1993

‘Global reach by Australian banks: correspondent banking networks’, Business History, 1995

‘Home owners and tenants in Melbourne, 1891-1911’ Australian Economic History Review, 1972, (with A. E. Dingle)

‘Corporate takeovers and corporate governance: whose interests to directors serve?’, ABACUS, 1999 (with K. A. Houghton)

Book Chapters

‘Stability and change in the Australian brewing industry’ in R. G. Wilson & T. R. Gourvish, eds, The Dynamics of the International Brewing Industry since 1800, 1998

‘Paradise lost? British banks in Australia’ in Geoffrey Jones, ed, Banks as multinationals, 1990

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities 2009

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