Experimenting with commodities and gifts: The case of an office hotel

Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 187-209

  Jensen, Torben Elgaard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Callon; Economic anthropology; Economic sociology; Framing; Gift economy; Market economy; Overflowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249004093     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508407086578     Document Type: Article

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