- Business Structure and Arrangements
- Business in Australia 2006-07, Survey Main Features
- Business Markets and Competition
The survey covered three areas, namely: foreign ownership, franchising agreements and collaborative agreements.
In terms of foreign ownership, the study found that regardless of the employment size group, the majority of businesses reported being Wholly Australian owned. Proportions ranged from 72% for businesses with 200 or more persons employed to 98% for businesses with 0-4 persons employed.
The Mining industry recorded the highest proportion of businesses with Greater than 50% foreign ownership, followed by Wholesale Trade at 9%.
Innovation-active businesses were almost twice as likely as non innovation-active businesses to have some degree of foreign ownership. For example, in the Information Media and Telecommunications industry, 12% of innovation-active businesses had some percentage of foreign ownership compared to 6% for non innovation-active businesses.
and/or provision of multiple responses, refer to Explanatory Notes 17-19.
With regard to franchising agreements, 5% of businesses surveyed responded as having involvement in a franchising agreement.
Businesses with 20-199 persons employed were the most likely to be a Franchisee (10%). The proportion of businesses operating as a Franchisor was highest for businesses with 200 or more persons employed (4%), compared to rates around 1% for businesses within the other employment size ranges.
The industries with the highest proportion of Franchisees were Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services along with Retail Trade, both of which were the only industries to record proportions above 10%.
The proportion of businesses reporting any type of collaborative arrangement increased with each successive employment size range. Joint marketing or distribution was the most prevalent, with 5% of all businesses indicating this type of arrangement.
At the industry level, the highest proportion of businesses with any collaborative arrangements was Mining at 19%. By contrast, the Construction industry reported the lowest proportion of businesses involved in any collaborative arrangements at 4%. More than half of all industries reported rates of involvement in collaborative arrangements of 10% or more.
Innovation-active businesses, at 16%, were more than twice as likely to be involved in some type of collaborative arrangements than non innovation-active businesses (6%).
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