The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the

Stock and station agents have been a key driving force behind rural-led economic development in Australia and New Zealand. By providing remote and inexperienced farmers with vital finance, marketing, and technical services and advice through expansion and crisis, they have filled an entrepreneurial gap. In the twentieth century, the leading agents expanded their range of activities and became some of Australasia's earliest nationwide firms and biggest businesses. The Rural Entrepreneurs provides new insights in understanding Australasia's rural history and economic development.

A quintessentially Australasian institution
The development of the stock and station agent industry
The farming community network
Financial services
Marketing services: livestock, land, and produce
Marketing services: wool consignment and brokerage
Information, advisory, and advocacy services
Organisational structures and administrative practices
Inter-organisational relations: competition, cooperation and collusion among agency firms
Conclusion: business intermediation and rural entrepreneurship
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The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand

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