Business Anthropology: Always In-The-Making

Authors

  • Kasper Tang Vangkilde Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
  • Samantha Dawn Breslin Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
  • Simon Lex Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v14i1.7619

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2025-10-30

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