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1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""SECTION 1""; ""MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE""; ""The South African Growth Model""; ""Output""; ""Exports""; ""Investment""; ""Productivity""; ""A New Context""; ""OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES""; ""What is an Industrial Strategy""; ""Objectives""; ""Creating Employment""; ""Increasing Investment""; ""Raising Productivity""; ""Improving Trade Performance""; ""Interlinked Objectives""; ""Strategies""; ""Specialisation: Moving up the Value Chain""; ""The Beneficiation of Natural Resouces"" |
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""Targeting Key Capabilities""""Empowerment for Productivity Growth""; ""The Inter-relationship Between Strategic Goals: An Example Drawn From the Pulp and Paper Filiere""; ""INDUSTRIAL POLICIES""; ""A Policy Framework""; ""Fostering the Role of Markets""; ""Enhancing Capabilities""; ""Building Institutional Capacity""; ""International Trade""; ""Trade Performance""; ""Trade Policy: A Brief Overview""; ""Towards a New Trade Policy""; ""Industrial Structure""; ""Introduction""; ""Market Structure""; ""Corporate Governance""; ""Small and Medium-scale and Micro-enterprise"" |
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""Human Resource Development & Workplace Organisation""""ISP Strategy and Policy Proposals""; ""The Role of Institutional Arrangements""; ""Sequencing and Financing""; ""Enhancing Technological Capability""; ""Why Have a Technology Policy?""; ""The Current Situation in South Africa""; ""Policies to support Technological Capability Building in Industry""; ""BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY""; ""Introduction""; ""The State""; ""The Parastatals""; ""Multi-partite Institutions""; ""SECTION 2""; ""MARKETS, OWNERSHIP & MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE""; ""1 Market Structure"" |
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""1.1 Trade Policy as Competition Policy""""1.2 SMEs in Concentrated Markets""; ""1.3 Collusion in Oligopolistic Markets""; ""1.4 Policy Proposals""; ""2 Ownership Structure""; ""2.1 The Manufacturing Groups: Origins and Structure""; ""2.2 Conglomeration and Entrepreneurship: The Separation of Ownership and Control""; ""2.3 Manufacturing Within the Conglomerates""; ""2.4 The Independent Manufacturing Groups""; ""2.5 Conglomerate Groups Versus Independent Groups""; ""2.6 Policy and Concentrated Ownership"" |
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""HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & WORKPLACE INNOVATION: AN INTELLIGENT PRODUCTION STRATEGY FOR INDUSTRIAL REGENERATION""""Introduction""; ""1 Low-productivity, Poor Growth: The Current Situation""; ""1.1 The Skills Profile in South African Manufacting Firms""; ""1.2 Work Organisation in South African Manufacturing Firms""; ""1.3 Plant-level Governace and Collective Bargaining""; ""2 An Intelligent Production Strategy""; ""2.1 Constant Skill Aquisition""; ""2.2 Reorganisation of Work""; ""2.3 Broadening the Notion of Productivity""; ""2.4 Democratic Practices in the Workplace"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial policy -- South Africa.
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Industrial policy. |
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South Africa. |
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Production management -- South Africa.
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Production management. |
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Industrial management -- South Africa.
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Industrial management. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Joffe, Avril.
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Industrial Strategy Project.
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International Development Research Centre (Canada)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Improving manufacturing performance in South Africa. Rondebosch, South Africa : UCT Press ; Ottawa, Canada : International Development Research Centre, 1995 079921583X 9780799215830 (DLC) 96166691 (OCoLC)34409151 |
| ISBN |
9781552504390 (electronic book) |
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1552504395 (electronic book) |
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9780799215830 (print ; UCT Press) |
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079921583X (print ; UCT Press) |
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0889367779 (print ; IDRC) |
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079921583X (print ; UCT Press) |
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9780889367777 |
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