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The current volume draws attention to anthropological approaches to the study of the kinship-economy nexus. For this, empirical contributions from ethnographic fieldwork, new understandings of kinship and a stronger reference to the cultural context have been emphasized. In this way, new opportunities for understanding the family business and the business family have been presented and discussed with the aim to bring family business and anthropological research closer together.
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Koellner, T. (2023). Conclusion. In: Koellner, T. (eds) Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5_12
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