Journal of Business Anthropology最新文献

Anthropologists at Work: Challenging Business “Common Sense” 人类学家在工作:挑战商业“常识”

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6920

Elisabeth Powell

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The Digital Turn in Business Anthropology 商业人类学的数字化转型

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6919

Matt Artz

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The Diversity of Solidarity Economies: A View from Danish Minority Gangs 团结经济的多样性:来自丹麦少数民族帮派的观点

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6917

Christina Jerne

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Productive Uneasiness as a Driver of Knowledge Creation Processes in Humanities-Business Collaborations 生产不安作为人文学科知识创造过程的驱动因素——商业合作

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6910

Lise Tjørring, M. Mahnke, M. Petersen, Mikka Nielsen, Mark Vacher

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Selling Thrift: Work Practices in an American Thrift Store 销售节俭:美国旧货店的工作实践

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6914

Frederik Larsen

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Business, Broadly Understood 商业，广泛理解

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6923

K. T. Vangkilde, S. Breslin, S. Lex

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Back to Copenhagen: A Few Words from the New JBA Editors 回到哥本哈根:新JBA编辑的几句话

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v11i2.6794

K. T. Vangkilde, S. Breslin, S. Lex

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Muddling Through 蒙混过关

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v11i2.6776

Tamara Hale

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The Making of Pieces of the Puzzle: Reflections on a Collaborative Ethnographic Filmmaking Process 拼图碎片的制作:对合作民族志电影制作过程的反思

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v11i2.6792

T. Hughes, Brady Welch, J. Schuurman

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Book Review: Digital Cultures, Lived Stories and Virtual Reality by Thomas Maschio, Anthropology and Business Series. London and New York: Routledge 书评:数字文化、生活故事和虚拟现实，作者托马斯·马西奥，人类学和商业系列。伦敦和纽约:劳特利奇出版社

Journal of Business Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.22439/jba.v11i2.6781

W. Fife

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