Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business
The Australian government has expressed commitment for Aboriginal entrepreneurship contending it is a pathway for ameliorating poverty, improving economic self-reliance, and building life quality. Yet a restrained geographic and sector spread of Australian Indigenous small business suggests there ma...
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| description | The Australian government has expressed commitment for Aboriginal entrepreneurship contending it is a pathway for ameliorating poverty, improving economic self-reliance, and building life quality. Yet a restrained geographic and sector spread of Australian Indigenous small business suggests there may be other important motives for starting an enterprise. This paper narrates responses from conversations with Aboriginal women at a remote settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia to reveal they were driven not by desires to acquire wealth, improve their educational opportunities or to escape poverty, but by practical aspirations of operating a local store selling household commodities used in daily living, a coffee shop meeting place, and to meaningfully change their existing community roles enabling them to ‘get off welfare’. Documenting the experiences and expectations of these Indigenous women exposes how Aboriginal culture, family, and community socialising networks can contribute to fostering female entrepreneurship. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-177552017-05-30T08:13:21Z Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business Pearson, Cecil Helms, K. Gumatj Indigenous Australia women entrepreneurship The Australian government has expressed commitment for Aboriginal entrepreneurship contending it is a pathway for ameliorating poverty, improving economic self-reliance, and building life quality. Yet a restrained geographic and sector spread of Australian Indigenous small business suggests there may be other important motives for starting an enterprise. This paper narrates responses from conversations with Aboriginal women at a remote settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia to reveal they were driven not by desires to acquire wealth, improve their educational opportunities or to escape poverty, but by practical aspirations of operating a local store selling household commodities used in daily living, a coffee shop meeting place, and to meaningfully change their existing community roles enabling them to ‘get off welfare’. Documenting the experiences and expectations of these Indigenous women exposes how Aboriginal culture, family, and community socialising networks can contribute to fostering female entrepreneurship. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17755 http://ifrnd.org/Research%20Papers/I4(6)1.pdf International Foundation for Research and Development restricted |
| spellingShingle | Gumatj Indigenous Australia women entrepreneurship Pearson, Cecil Helms, K. Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| title | Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| title_full | Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| title_fullStr | Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| title_short | Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| title_sort | conversations with australian indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business |
| topic | Gumatj Indigenous Australia women entrepreneurship |
| url | http://ifrnd.org/Research%20Papers/I4(6)1.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17755 |