How Big Business Performs: Private Performance and Public Policy


How Big Business Performs

This book provides a systematic set of analysis of how Australian big business performs, using unique and rich data colledted by the IBIS Business Information Pty Ltd.

Eds: Peter Dawkins, Michael Harris and Stephen King

1999, 208 pages, ISBN: 86448 867 0

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction

  • Big Business, Private Performance, and Public Policy: An Introduction
    Peter Dawkins, Michael Harris and Stephen King
  • Measuring the Performance of Australian Businesses
    Ian Gow and Stuart Kells
  • What's Happened to Big Business Profits in Australia?
    Simon Feeny and Mark Rogers

Part 2: Big Business: Private Performance

  • The Private Performance of Big Business: An Overview
    Peter Dawkins, Michael Harris and Stephen King
  • Profitability in Australian Manufacturing
    James Ted McDonald
  • Business Focus and Profitability
    Derek Bosworth, Peter Dawkins, Mark Harris and Stuart Kells
  • R&D and Profitability
    Derek Bosworth and Mark Rogers
  • Management Principles and Profitability
    Danny Samson

Part 3: Big Business and Public Policy

  • Big Business and Policy
    Peter Dawkins, Michael Harris and Stephen King
  • The Cost of Monopoly in Australia
    Robert Dixon
  • Mergers and Takeovers: Should We Be Concerned?
    T. J. Brailsford and S. R. Knights
  • Mergers and Takeovers: The Case of Petroleum
    Charles E. Hyde
  • Innovation and Public Policy
    Mark Rogers

Part 4: Conclusions

  • Big Business in Australia: The Lessons
    Peter Dawkins, Michael Harris and Stephen King