‘Brave new world’ or ‘sticky wicket’? Women, management and organizational power in Cricket AustraliaFootnote1

¹ In this essay we use the terms merger, amalgamation and integration interchangeably. This is a stylistic device: the common meaning we attribute to these words are ‘any combination of two or more enterprises into a single enterprise’. Random House Unabridged Dictionary. The underlying nature and complexity of combining enterprises are discussed later in the essay.

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