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4 reasons why businesses should be more open
Many initiatives in recent years have extolled the virtues of governments becoming more open, but now the focus is turning to whether and how businesses will embrace openness.
Cobus de Swardt
Sociologist. Experience in globalization, development policy, international relations, and multinational business management. Former: university teacher, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and Germany; managerial and research-related positions, multinational corporations, trade unions and research institutes. 1980s to early 1990s, active in anti-apartheid struggle, South Africa. Former Chairman, ANC, Cape Town. Former Chair, International Civil Society Centre. Member, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Anti-Corruption and Transparency. Member of the Board, Partnering Against Corruption Initiative, World Economic Forum.
