An Urgent Need for More Ethnographic Study of Business Creation

Authors

  • Derek Lidow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v6i2.5425

Abstract

Notes from the Corner Office:

An Urgent Need for More Ethnographic Study of Business Creation

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