In this essay we explore how strategic alliances (SA) between organisations and communities can be used to develop opportunities that are advantageous for both the corporation and the community venturer. In particular, indigenous communities have access to significant amounts of natural...

This paper explores the relationship between business, society and the developmental aspirations of Indigenous people, whose communities are among the poorest and most marginalized in the world; it explores the emergence, evolution and growing importance of the role that Indigenous rights play in...

In this paper we explore the relationship between business (most notably, corporations involved in the natural resource extraction industry) and the developmental aspirations of the world’s 800 million plus Indigenous People, whose communities are among the poorest and most marginalized in the...

The current socioeconomic circumstances of the Aboriginal people in Canada are abysmal. According to the 1991 census, 42 percent of Aboriginal people received social welfare, as opposed to 8 percent of the Canadian population as a whole. In the same year unemployment among Aboriginal people...

In Canada there are numerous studies about Indigenous entrepreneurship, most descriptive with little theory development or testing. This leaves a gap in the information available to researchers, policy makers and practitioners.In this paper we describe a research program intended to address this...

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 paper examines the role that Indigenous people’s rights to land and resources pay in business and economic development in Canada and elsewhere. It does this in four parts. The first provides background information about the socioeconomic circumstances of Aboriginal people in Canada, and...