The changing face and strategies of big business in South Africa: More than a decade of political democracy

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 549-577

  Chabane, Neo ^a   Goldstein, Andrea ^b   Roberts, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; COMPETITION POLICY; DEMOCRACY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; LIBERALIZATION; OECD; OWNERSHIP;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33745700724     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtl011     Document Type: Article

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