Introduction: Business, anthropology, and the growth of corporate ethnography

Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-37

  Cefkin, Melissa ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

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