If you’re looking for a good gripping and compelling read you probably don’t head to the business section of the bookshop for a hefty corporate history. Yet often the stories behind companies—and the research that goes into them—tell us fascinating tales of intrigue, politics and history, and much about our economic and social world.
Guests:
Trevor Sykes, Author of ‘Six Months of Panic’ Allen and Unwin, 2010
Gideon Haigh, Author, "Asbestos house: the secret history of James Hardie Industries"
Professor Geoffrey Blainey
Publications:
Title: The Concept of the Corporation
Author: Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: Mentor Executive Library Books , New York 1946
Title: Asbestos House
Author: Gideon Haigh
Publisher: 2006
Title: This is the ABC
Author: Ken Inglis
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1983
Title: The Rush That Never Ended
Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1963
Title: One of a kind: the story of Bankers Trust Australia 1969-1999
Author: Gideon Haigh
Publisher: 1999
Title: A Company of Heralds
Author: Gavin Souter
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1981
Title: Jumping over the Wheel
Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993
Title: The Reckoning
Author: David Halberstam
Publisher: William Morrow, 1986
Title: The Golden Mile
Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993
Title: The Deutsche Bank
Author: Lothar Gall
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995
Title: Six Months of Panic
Author: Trevor Sykes
Publisher: Allen and Unwin, 2010
Title: Mines in the Spinifex
Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher: Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1960
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/corporate-tales/3764372
