Rapid population growth has significantly increased the magnitude of water shortages in California. Although water shortages already exist, some of the state's utility systems are still not providing their residents with financial incentives for water conservation. Instead of using water meters...

Prior to contact with Europeans, Ungava Inuit who inhabited the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula was self-sufficient, with a subsistence economy and inter-cultural trade. They lived in small bands, each consisting of a few families, and they fished, gathered, hunted, and migrated as required....

Ethnic or immigrant social networks tend to influence the type of business that an ethnic entrepreneur starts, as well as the success or failure of the business. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model that proposes that ethnic community involvement influences the configuration of ethnic...

The paper combines under a literature review, secondary and tertiary data analysis, a unique construct of three perspectives: the new classical macroeconomics theory related to unemployment, a finance approach of the relationship with exchange rates and the legal repercussions of the social...

This study focuses on a national sample of customers who used commercial bank products/services in Ghana. The results demonstrate that social and cultural influences are important determinants of marketing practices of banking institutions in Ghana. Although, societal leaders are critical of the...

A pathway for indigenous people to increase their economic independence is by developing entrepreneurial business engagements. As a strategy to reduce the significant differences between indigenous business aspirations and non-indigenous business participation the Australian Government policy of...

This research focuses on understanding barriers to indigenous enterprise development (IED) on inalienable and communal land in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia. A total of 56 face-to-face interviews were conducted with experts or opinion leaders on IED in the region. The barriers...

While gaming operations are on the rise in Canada, the actual impact of gaming revenues on the economic development of Canadian First Nations is an area of research that is currently lacking. The primary objective of this paper is to develop a research agenda for the investigation of the impact...

This study examines the relationship between the success of businesses owned by ethnic minority immigrants in Canada and measures of their prior employment status in their homelands, their co-ethnic involvement in Canada and their educational level. Our findings show that while they were mainly...