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Aboriginal Speaker Series: Indigenous Community Enterprises in the Andes


March 28, 2017


The field of Indigenous entrepreneurship arose from inquiries into the nature of entrepreneurship among diverse cultural groups, highlighting that the standard conception of the innovative, risk-taking individual does not accurately describe entrepreneurship by marginalized populations (Indigenous, immigrant, etc.) (Anderson, 2006; Mitchell, 1999). Indigenous entrepreneurship tends to have a collective orientation in structure or distribution of benefits (Swinney, 2007). Research with Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Andes shows that the community-based enterprise is a common model — in which the community acts "corporately as both entrepreneur and enterprise in pursuit of the common good" (Peredo & Chrisman, 2006). For profit activities are established to generate revenues for health and education services or to retain and regenerate traditional cultural practices.

This research explores several cases of Indigenous-run community enterprises in Bolivia and Ecuador — tracing their characteristics, benefits and challenges for contributing to well-being in the broadest sense. The potential contribution of such enterprises to self-determination is also discussed.

Time: 7 p.m.
Venue: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Location: 149 W. Hastings Vancouver, BC
Website: http://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/2017-2018-Spring/AboriginalLectureSeries4.html
Categories: Arts & Culture

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