Diane Hutchinson

BA NSW PhD NSW
Senior Lecturer
d.hutchinson@econ.usyd.edu.au

Room 437
H04 Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Phone: +61 2 9351 4088
Fax: +61 2 9351 4341

Diane Hutchinson has been with the Faculty since 1989, prior to which she held an appointment at the University of Melbourne.

Her research interests are the growth and management of big business, and technology transfer. She has mainly focused on Australian firms although she has also done some research on the technology acquisition practices of large British firms.

Dr Hutchinson has published articles in a number of journals including a recent article in Business History on the evolution of an Australian firm, Boral. In addition to case studies of single firms, she has done broader research on business and technology, including an article on Australian corporate entrepreneurship for the Australian Economic History Review (forthcoming). She has also written a number of joint articles with Stephen Nicholas analysing technology transfer to Australia by a large sample of firms in the 1990s, as part of a project funded by an ARC grant.

Research Expertise

• Industrial Organization and International Trade

Research Interests

• Firm structure
• Growth and measurement of big business
• Technology transfer