Enterprise and entrepreneurial thinking: it's a black thing!

Title: Enterprise and entrepreneurial thinking: it's a black thing!
Creator: Foley, Dennis
Relation: Knowledge of Life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia p. 118-140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Australian Aboriginal entrepreneurship and enterprise are not new - they were part of Aboriginal life prior to colonisation. Valuable food consumables were developed in Aboriginal societies to meet demands during colder winter months when other protein was scarce. Raw materials such as eel were systematically captured, farm-managed over many years, harvested, value-added in production processing to prolong shelf life, and distributed across a supply chain covering a third of the continent - as will be shown in this chapter, the enterprise existed for more than 8000 years. This chapter looks at numerous examples of engagement by Indigenous Australians with economic structures, ranging from 6000BC to the 21st century and the positive impact of the Indigenous Chambers of Commerce.
Subject: Australian Aboriginals; entrepreneurship; economic structures; colonialists
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319935
Identifier: uon:24013
Identifier: ISBN:9781107477421
Language: eng