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Public-private partnerships as a strategy against HIV/AIDS in South Africa: the influence of historical legacies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Viviane Brunne --- , Switzerland 1In the face of the extreme challenges posed by the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic, collaboration between public and private partners is often called for in an attempt to mobilise additional resources and generate synergies. This paper shows that the ability... -
Codes and Dignity: Thinking about ethics in relation to research on violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Fiona C. Ross --- Dept. Social Anthropology, South AfricaBeginning with an anecdote concerning consent forms, the paper offers a critique of assumptions that legalistic protocols offer an adequate guarantee of ethical research. Drawing on research on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it explores some of the... -
Rhetoric and anthropology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Philippe-Joseph Salazar --- Centre for Rhetoric Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis essay deals with the relationship between rhetoric and anthropology, along three main lines of argument. The author offers reflections on the relationship between the two fields, highlighting contentious intersections, as in the case of the French anthropological tradition. He... -
Network Bricolage as the Reconciliation of Indigenous and Transplanted Institutions in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Kevin McKague --- Shannon School of Business, Cape Breton University, Canada Christine Oliver --- Schulich School of Business, York University, CanadaThis paper argues that network bricolage can play an important role in reconciling informal indigenous institutions rooted in African history with formal institutions mostly transplanted from outside. Drawing on the literature on bricolage, social entrepreneurship, networks and institutional entrepreneurship, and... -
The association between EBITDA reconciliation quality and opportunistic disclosure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Mattheus Theodorus Mey --- , South Africa Christiaan Lamprecht --- , South AfricaPurpose: This paper investigated the potential opportunistic disclosure of ‘earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation’ (EBITDA) by analysing the association between the quality of EBITDA reconciliations and factors associated with opportunistic disclosure.