Reconciling the "Global" and "Local" by Using the Soft Systems Methodology: A Case of Building Trust Relationships in South Africa

Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 302-320

  Uchiyama, Ken ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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