Copperbelt Merger: The Formation of the Rhokana Corporation, 1930–1932*

B.W.E. Alford and C.E. Harvey

Business History Review, 1980, vol. 54, issue 3, 330-358

Abstract: The concerted actions of giant companies operating on the international stage, notably in mining and petroleum, rival the Schleswig-Holstein question in complexity. In the absence of any clear understanding of the reasons for huge mergers such as that which took place in the southern African copper mining industry at the depth of the Great Depression, rationalizations that reflect Marxist-Leninist simplism and populist paranoia have been popular. Messrs. Alford and Harvey undertake to unravel the reasons for the copper merger, concluding that this merger defies modern, formal merger theory and teaches that there is no substitute for a close study of the motives of “corporate insiders.”

Date: 1980
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