Gordon Boyce is Professor in Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW. He is author of Information Mediation and Institutional Development, Co-operative Structures in Global Business, The Development of Modern Business (with Simon Ville) and Over Half a Million Careful Owners.Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His recent books include (with Anna Clark), The History Wars (Melbourne University Press, 2004), and (with Joe Isaac) The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.Simon Ville is Professor in the School of Economics, University of Wollongong, specialising in the economic and business history of Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand and The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia (with G. Fleming and D. Merrett).

Gordon Boyce is Professor in Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW. He is author of Information Mediation and Institutional Development, Co-operative Structures in Global Business, The Development of Modern Business (with Simon Ville) and Over Half a Million Careful Owners.Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His recent books include (with Anna Clark), The History Wars (Melbourne University Press, 2004), and (with Joe Isaac) The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.Simon Ville is Professor in the School of Economics, University of Wollongong, specialising in the economic and business history of Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. His recent publications include The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand and The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia (with G. Fleming and D. Merrett).