Madlen Kobi and Elena Sischarenco organized this panel to enquire into the giving and taking that anthropologists practice when working on and in companies, including business entities ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to large transnational corporations. Conducting fieldwork in such institutions generates knowledge on topics such as human relations in a work environment, the relation between companies and territories (the local and the global), the influence of the cultural context on businesses, human-material relations, socio-technical innovation, design issues or organizational structures. Papers were presented by Lena Kaufmann, Atak Ayaz and Sergio Marchetti