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Author: M. Li Affiliation: Independent Researcher Received 5 March 2024; Revised 20 April 2024; Accepted 5 May 2024; Available online 1 June 2024; Version of Record 1 June 2024. Abstract Business education has developed through a long and complex historical process shaped by economic change, institutional development, and technological progress. What began as informal learning through trade, apprenticeship, and merchant practice gradually became a structured field of academic

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