International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 26 thg 6, 2007 - 634 trang
This book offers an original collection of international studies on indigenous entrepreneurship. Through these specific lenses, entrepreneurship greatly appears as a set of cultural values-based behaviours. Once more culture and human values are placed at
 

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1 Toward a multidisciplinary definition of indigenous entrepreneurship
3
toward a globally relevant paradigm of Indigenous entrepreneurship research
8
3 Shattering misconceptions
20
PART II AFRICA
25
4 Introduction to the chapters on Africa
27
5 An overview of African entrepreneurship and small business research
28
the case of Bodija market in Ibadan South Western Nigeria
46
the case of Nande Luba and Kumu in the Democratic Republic of Congo
60
the subsistence economy of the Han Athabaskan people of the Upper Yukon River
313
26 The Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay Cormorant Island British Columbia
328
wine and tourism with an Aboriginal flavour
336
28 The Saskatchewan experience
352
29 A theorybased empirical study of entrepreneurship in Iqaluit Nunavut formerly Frobisher Bay Northwest Territories
366
successes and challenges of small business owners
378
traditional Hopi agriculture and sustainability
404
an aboriginal entrepreneurial endeavour in the Mexican State of Chiapas
413

entrepreneurship and change
84
9 Basuto culture and entrepreneurship in Lesotho
100
PART III ASIA
113
10 Traditional livestock production among Bedouin in the Negev Desert
115
life of Kalar Evenks
137
12 Flexibility in indigenous exchange practices in northern Russia
155
13 Indigenous small and medium enterprises SMEs in Mongolia
168
14 The Ainu of Japan and the land given by the river
175
15 The Dhivehis of the Maldives
181
PART IV EUROPE
193
16 Peoples livelihoods and change in Europes Far and Atlantic North
195
17 Entrepreneurs in Greenland
201
18 Sure werent we always selfsufficient didnt we have to be Entrepreneurship in the Irish Gaeltacht
211
19 Entrepreneurship among Sámi reindeer herders
232
20 Womens position in the Sámi reindeer husbandry
246
21 Social capital of indigenous and autochthonous ethnicities
257
22 An ethnographic study of entrepreneurship among the Sámi people of Finland
287
23 The Komi of the Kola Peninsula
302
PART V THE AMERICAS
307
24 Introduction to the Americas
309
land of Kuna and Moon Children
419
34 The road less travelled in Peru
426
land of the Aymarás and Quechuas
445
PART VI THE SOUTH PACIFIC
457
Australia New Zealand and the Pacific Islands insights into the theory and praxis of Indigenous entrepreneurship
459
the social embeddedness of small business enterprises
470
38 The renaissance of Indigenous entrepreneurship in Australia
485
stimulating entrepreneurship in regional communities
494
40 Unlocking the economic potential of an Australian indigenous community
508
looking forward looking back
526
42 Kaupapa Maori entrepreneurship
536
the New Zealand success story in indigenous entrepreneurship
549
Maori entrepreneurs iwibased and individually owned
558
Melanesian islands with Polynesian cultural values
565
comparing Australia and New Zealand with Canada
573
PART VII TOWARD FUTURE RESEARCH
591
Declaration of Principles
593
48 A multidisciplinary theory of entrepreneurship as a function of cultural perceptions of opportunity
595
Index
605
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Edited by Léo-Paul Dana, Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada and Montpellier Business School, France and Robert B. Anderson, Professor, University of Regina, Canada and Founding Editor, Journal of Enterprising Communities

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