Case study: Transfield and Tenex: endurance and weakness in two migrant family businesses in Australia

Authors

Mary Barrett, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

90320

Publication Details

Barrett, M. (2014). Case study: Transfield and Tenex: endurance and weakness in two migrant family businesses in Australia. In D. Halkias & C. Adendorff (Eds.), Governance in Immigrant Family Businesses: Enterprise, Ethnicity and Family Dynamics (pp. 112-116). Farnham, United Kingdom: Gower. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472402394

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Gower

Abstract

Transfield is one of Australia's most prominent construction companies. The name itself: "trans" meaning across and "field", which suggests open spaces, reflects the firm's origins as a venture founded by two Italian emigrants, Carlo Salteri and Franco Belgiorni-Nettis, who crossed huge distances to Australia before establishing their own firm.