Entrepreneurship: A Challenging, Fruitful Domain for Ethnography

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  • Elizabeth K. Briody
  • Alex Stewart

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https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v8i2.5846

Abstract

Entrepreneurship: A Challenging, Fruitful Domain for Ethnography

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2019-11-14

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