Business development and local economic development in South Africa: Addressing the disconnect;Besigheidsontwikkeling en plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling in Suid-Afrika: Om die onverbondenheid aan te spreek

Acta Academica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 41-69

  Rogerson, C M ^a   Rogerson, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

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