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An analysis of the activities of the Unilever Corporation, based on case studies in India, Indonesia, prewar Germany, Sene-Gambia, and South Africa, which seeks to demonstrate that multinational corporations prosper under regimes which are neither mature nor developed democracies.
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Sadri, S. Unilever as a global force: An historical re-examination. Int J Value-Based Manage 2, 1–18 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01714966
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