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Simon Ville BA(Hons), PhD London Professor and Head of School of Economics President of Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Office: 40.203 Phone: (02) 4221 3098 Email Alias: simon_ville Email addresses are in the form alias@uow.edu.au

Research Profile UoW Research Information Systems Profile Research Interests Australian and international business history; transport industries; rural services; social capital; research performance; inter-organisational communication; business performance; creativity and innovation; resource-based economies. Selected publications How Organisations Connect: Investing in Communication (with S. Macintyre and G. Boyce) (Melbourne University Press and Academy of Social Sciences, 2006). ‘The Distribution of Research Performance Across Australian Universities 1992-2003, and its Implications for ‘Building Diversity’, (with A. Valadkhani and M. O’Brien) Australian Economic Papers 45, 4 (2006): 343-61. ‘The Relocation of the International Market for Australian Wool’ Australian Economic History Review 45, 1 (2005): 73-95. The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia (with G. Fleming and D. Merrett) (Cambridge University Press, 2004).