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1. SEX AND CAPITAL: WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT OURSELVES.

Author

Dickerson, Claire Moore

Subjects
*PUBLIC companies, *BUSINESSWOMEN, *WOMEN-owned business enterprises, *CAPITAL, *CORPORATE governance, DEVELOPING countries
Abstract

Explores the perspective on public corporations, on women in business, and on how they interact with each other and in the context of the larger society. Investigation on the emerging classes of women entrepreneurs in developing countries and in West Africa specifically, focusing on how they raise capital and perform business; Role of the public corporation in West Africa; Significance of corporate governance to the developing-world reality that relegates public corporations to the role of political tool.

Published
2005

2. Integrating Business Law in West and Central African Commerce.

Author

Dickerson, Claire Moore

Subjects
*COMMERCIAL law, *BUSINESS enterprise laws
Abstract

OHADA is an organization that promulgates and regulates a system of business laws uniform across 16 West and Central African countries. The laws are inspired by French laws, although they reflect aspects of other systems and were drafted with an eye to realities in developing economies. The national legal regimes apply these laws, and the legal professionals ostensibly take them very seriously. As a practical matter, the commercial community in the formal economy does derive norms from the laws, but those laws reflect as well as influence local realities. The accepted role of a manager, for example, can be very different from what would be expected in the laws' source jurisdictions. To all appearances, commercial behavior in the region's substantial informal economy, too, is influenced by those laws. These realities both confirm the importance and fragility of formal legal systems in developing economies, and suggest methods of reinforcing their predictive capacity. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008

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