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In early February 1988, Ford Motor Company announced that it was withdrawing from South Africa.1 The announcement was a long time in the making. The previous two years had seen almost a stampede of American companies leaving South Africa through closures, sales of assets, and a variety of other means. Quite often, these divestitures caused significant losses to the American parents when measured against the value of the companies’ assets in South Africa.
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Sethi, S.P., Williams, O.F. (2000). Ford Motor Corporation of South Africa. In: Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4491-3_7
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