Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)

Employing legal origin theory, the study examined colonial institutional and legislative influences on financial accountability in early Western Australian (WA) banks. Direct transplants of legislative accountability were traced to transplants from Britain. These align with legal origin theory, wher...

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Main Author: Game, Chantal
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88576
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description Employing legal origin theory, the study examined colonial institutional and legislative influences on financial accountability in early Western Australian (WA) banks. Direct transplants of legislative accountability were traced to transplants from Britain. These align with legal origin theory, whereby the coloniser transplants legislation to its colony. Findings also revealed how early WA banking legislation indirectly embodied international constructs of accountability from other transnational precedents such as from the United States (US) and Canada.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-885762022-05-25T07:09:32Z Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880) Game, Chantal Employing legal origin theory, the study examined colonial institutional and legislative influences on financial accountability in early Western Australian (WA) banks. Direct transplants of legislative accountability were traced to transplants from Britain. These align with legal origin theory, whereby the coloniser transplants legislation to its colony. Findings also revealed how early WA banking legislation indirectly embodied international constructs of accountability from other transnational precedents such as from the United States (US) and Canada. 2022 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88576 Curtin University fulltext
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Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)
title Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)
title_full Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)
title_fullStr Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)
title_full_unstemmed Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)
title_short Accountability of Early Western Australian Banks (1837-1880)
title_sort accountability of early western australian banks (1837-1880)
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88576