Simon is the President of Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Articles
Banking records, business and networks in Colonial Sydney, 1817-24 (with Leanne Johns), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
Examining accounting transactions between depositors in the first accounts ledger of the Bank of New...
I was only nineteen, 45 years ago: What can we learn from Australia's conscription lotteries? (with Peter Siminski), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
The Australian conscription lotteries of 1965-1972 are a unique and underutilised resource for studying the...
I Was Only Nineteen, 45 Years Ago: What Can we Learn from Australia’s Conscription Lotteries? (with Peter Siminski), Faculty of Business - Economics Working Papers (2012)
The Australian conscription lotteries of 1965-1972 are a unique and underutilised resource for studying the...
Industry associations and non-competitive behaviour in Australian wool marketing: evidence from the Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association, 1890-1939 (with David Merrett), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2012)
From the 1890s the sale of Australian wool was organised through a series of regionally...
The Dynamics of Resource-Based Economic Development: Evidence from Australia and Norway (with Olav Wicken), Faculty of Business - Economics Working Papers (2012)
Australia and Norway have achieved modern levels of development as resource-based economies, thus avoiding the...
Books
The Big End of Town, Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia (with Grant Fleming and David Merrett), Cambridge University Press (2004)
Never before has a book been published which provides such a comprehensive study of Australian...
Contributions to Books
Historical Approaches to Creativity and Innovation, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
In this chapter, I will analyse historical approaches to creativity and innovation. Initially, this will...
The Institutional Legacy and the Development of an Australian National Innovation System, in W.R. Garside (ed) Institutions and Market Economies: The Political Economy of Growth and Development (2007)
Institutions are the rules of the game that help to shape the long-term historical development...
The institutional legacy and the development of an Australian national innovation system, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2007)
Institutions are the rules of the game that help to shape the long-term historical development...
Conclusion: building collaborative capabilities (with Gordon Boyce and Stuart Macintyre), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2006)
Investing in inter-organisational communication: the Melbourne Wool Brokers Association (with David Merrett), How Organisations Connect: Investing in Communication, G. Boyce, S. Macintyre & S. Ville (Eds.) (2006)
Trade associations were common in Australia in the 1960s with an estimated 1250 in existence...
Presentations
Institution building and organizational diversity: evidence from Australian Woolbrokers’ Associations, 1890‐1939 (with David Merrett), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2011)
Between 1890 and 1914 Australia became the world’s largest market for wool. Wresting this title...
What determines the research output of Australian universities? (with Abbas Valadkhani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2008)
This paper develops and estimates a cross-sectional model for forecasting research output across the Australian...
An assessment of the research performance of commerce faculties in Australia (with Abbas Valadkhani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2007)
There is a growing policy focus in Australian higher education on quantitative research performance assessment....
Tariffs, subsidies and profits: a re-assessment of structural change in Australia 1901-1939 (with David Merrett), in Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference 2007: Varieties of Capitalist Development and Corporate (2007)
This paper offers a re-interpretation of the drivers of structural change in Australia from federation...
Identifying the corporate leaders, Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2002)
In chapter two we used a range of aggregated time series and pooled cross-sectional data...