'The Australian Company. Operations and finance' in R Lee (ed), Commerce and Culture. Nineteenth century business elites

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Explores the Scottish Australian shipping trade from the late 1820s leading to the formation of the Australian Co, the first joint stock shipping company to trade regularly between Britain and Australia. Focuses on the latter's structure and management by its shareholders / managers and the strengths its size and corporate structure provided relative to a partnership. Also deals with the failure of the business in 1830 due to communications with its agent. Has sections: 'Bilateral exchanges'; 'Leith's Australian experiment'; 'A new joint stock company'; 'Contract of copartnery'; 'Shareholding'; 'Copartners'; 'Annual meetings and Committee of Management'; 'Professional management'