ABSTRACT

This article provides a comparative study of the steel industry in Canada, Australia and South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century, in order to determine what key elements existed in these settler states that ensured the successful foundation of an industry seen as a symbols of industrial and national development. Although there is considerable literature containing comparisons of the overall long-term economic development of these settler nations, these comparisons are broad in approach, rather than focusing on the organizational structure and management of individual industries. The study finds that a combination of factors were in ensuring this success important including the development of local markets for steel, financial market development, public policy attitudes and natural resource availability. In doing so it finds that the three industries were similar in that they all had an abundance of raw materials, growing markets for steel and access to British and American capital markets and technical expertise.

摘要

本文对二十世纪上半叶加拿大，澳大利亚和南非的钢铁行业进行了比较研究，以确定在这些移民国家中存在哪些关键要素，这些要素确保了成功地将工业视为一个象征。工业和国家发展。尽管有大量文献对这些移民国家的总体长期经济发展进行了比较，但这些比较的方法很广泛，而不是侧重于单个行业的组织结构和管理。该研究发现，确保这一成功的重要因素包括多种因素，包括钢铁本地市场的发展，金融市场的发展，公共政策的态度和自然资源的可获得性。