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  • Selective informality: the self-limiting growth choices of small businesses in South Africa

    Author(s)
    Bischoff, Christine
    Wood, Geoffrey
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Wood, Geoffery
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    Based on in-depth interviews, this study explores the reasons why many South African small businesses abide by some aspects of labour law, but not others: they generally comply with legislated labour regulations, but less so with regulations set by the statutory industry-level Bargaining Councils. Such selective engagement with the system is attributed to employer hostility to unions in the context of post-apartheid industrial relations. Since a larger workforce attracts closer scrutiny by the Councils, small firms are reluctant to expand, relying on outsourcing to increase production. The very size of the firm is thus a ...
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    Based on in-depth interviews, this study explores the reasons why many South African small businesses abide by some aspects of labour law, but not others: they generally comply with legislated labour regulations, but less so with regulations set by the statutory industry-level Bargaining Councils. Such selective engagement with the system is attributed to employer hostility to unions in the context of post-apartheid industrial relations. Since a larger workforce attracts closer scrutiny by the Councils, small firms are reluctant to expand, relying on outsourcing to increase production. The very size of the firm is thus a pliable concept, positioned between formal and informal norms.
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    Journal Title
    International Labour Review
    Volume
    152
    Issue
    3-4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2013.00190.x
    Subject
    International Business
    Business and Management
    Human Geography
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/58288
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