The internationalisation of supermarkets and the nature of competitive rivalry in retailing in southern AfricaFootnote¹

1 This paper draws from research undertaken for UNU-WIDER by das Nair & Chisoro (Citation2015, Citation2016, Citation2017), Ziba & Phiri (Citation2017) and Chigumira et al. (Citation2016).

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