Determinants of competitiveness of South African agricultural export firms

Competitiveness Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 223-232

  Esterhuizen, Dirk ^a   Rooyen, Johan van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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