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    Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business

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    Authors
    Pearson, Cecil
    Helms, K.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Pearson, Cecil A.L. and Helms, Klaus. 2012. Conversations with Australian Indigenous females revealing their motives when establishing a sustainable small business. Information Management and Business Review. 4 (6): pp. 299-310.
    Source Title
    Information Management and Business Review
    Additional URLs
    http://ifrnd.org/Research%20Papers/I4(6)1.pdf
    ISSN
    2220 3796
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17755
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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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