Anti-competitive behaviour in the agri-food and steel value chains in the South African manufacturing sector

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

 
 
Field Value
 
Title Anti-competitive behaviour in the agri-food and steel value chains in the South African manufacturing sector
 
Creator Kupka, Julia Thomas, Adele
 
Subject agri-food; Chicago School; competition policy; oligopoly; Ordoliberalist approach; Porter’s Five Force Framework; SMEs; steel
Description Despite the fact that it has existed for over ten years, the Competition Act has had little impact in diluting the dominance of big business in the South African manufacturing sector. This study sought to ascertain the extent of anti-competitive behaviour in two sub-sectors of the South African manufacturing sector and to determine whether the competition authorities should focus on supporting SMEs as competitors to big business. The findings indicated that SMEs in these two sub-sectors face unique difficulties in fighting anti-competitive behaviour, and that there is scope for the competition authorities to facilitate the participation of SMEs in the economy through the use of tools such as market inquiries, the Corporate Leniency Policy and structural remedies.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor
Date 2014-07-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jef.v7i2.143
 
Source Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Vol 7, No 2 (2014); 315-340 2312-2803 1995-7076
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Julia Kupka, Adele Thomas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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