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Prof

David Merrett

Honorary
Management and Marketing
social sciences
business & economics
history of social sciences
social sciences - other topics
economics
business
australia
wool
market
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Prof

David Merrett

 
Division
Business and Economics
 
Primary Interest
Financial History
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Projects

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A HISTORY OF FOREIGN MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES IN AUSTRALIA FROM FEDERATION

2020 - 2023
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Regulating Australia's retail grocery sector - goals, actors and techniques

The major supermarket chains have a substantial economic and social impact on consumers, businesses and communities and are crucial to Austr..

2015 - 2019
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REASSESSING THE ROLE OF INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS THROUGH AN EXAMINATION OF AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND WOOL MARKETING, 1890-1960

This is a study of organisational innovation in an internationally-important industry. Wool industry associations built and maintained a mar..

2010 - 2012
Completed
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BUSINESS PROFITABILITY AND LONG TERM INDUSTRIAL CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUSTRALIA

This project will establish Australia as a pioneer in longitudinal research into business profitability in terms of assembling new data and ..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

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Taking the long view of the multinational

André Sammartino, David Merrett, Pierre van der Eng, Simon Ville

Journal article  |  2023  |  Multinational Business Review

Purpose This paper argues for the benefits to international business (IB) of taking a much longer view at the engagement by multin..

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Managing the marketplace: Reinventing shopping centres in post-war Australia

David Merrett

Journal article  |  2022  |  BUSINESS HISTORY

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International Business in Australia before World

Simon Ville, David Merrett

Book  |  2022

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Underpricing in a developing capital market: Australian equity issuances, 1920-39(dagger)

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin Frank Liu, David Merrett, Simon Ville

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW

Developing capital markets generally lack the regulatory safeguards and rich informational sources that assist investors in judgin..

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The Making of Australia's Supermarket Duopoly, 1958–2000

DT Merrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history

Australian supermarkets had one of the highest levels of concentration among developed economies by 2000. This paper explores the ..

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Investing in a Wealthy Resource-Based Colonial Economy: International Business in Australia before World War I

Simon Ville, David Tolmie Merrett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Business History Review

The article is a rare investigation into multinational activity in a wealthy resource-based colonial economy toward the end of the..

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Quotidian Routines: The Cooperative Practices of a Business Elite

CLAIRE WRIGHT, SIMON VILLE, DAVID MERRETT

Journal article  |  2019  |  Enterprise & Society

Cooperative corporate behavior has often been explained through the social anatomy of business leaders and structural ties among f..

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Correspondent Banking in the 1930s

L Panza, D Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Business History

We present novel quantitative evidence on the number and location of correspondent banking relationships in the 1930s, a neglected..

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Counting the cost: the reserve price scheme for wool 1970‐2001

Malcolm Abbott, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

This paper provides a policy commentary on the collapse in 1991 of the Australian Reserve Price Scheme for wool. A key cause of th..

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Was It Possible to Stabilise the Price of Wool? Organised Wool Marketing 1916 to 1970

Malcolm Abbott, David Merrett

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history

Wool is the only Australian commodity for which there has been an attempt to organise price stability through a buffer stock schem..

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Applied Economics
Microeconomics
Management and Productivity
Historical Studies
Banking, Finance and Investment
Human Resources and Industrial Relations
International Trade Policy
Financial Services
Macroeconomics
Business Systems in Context

News

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New Outlook

Paul Jensen

What’s important to Australia right now? Where should the Government be focusing its energy? What do Australia’s thought leaders consider t..

October 29, 2015
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Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Management and Marketing

Judging Panel For Bruce Mccomish Prize In Economic History

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Victorian Working Party

Member

Academy of International Business

Education

Master of Economics

Monash University

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