Telling their own stories

Ella Henry, Leo Dana and Patrick Murphy
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Ella Henry: AUT - Auckland University of Technology
Patrick Murphy: DePaul University [Chicago]

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Abstract: We examined how factors from Indigenous entrepreneurship research (social capital, cultural capital, self-efficacy) help explain the high level of Māori entrepreneurial performance in the mainstream screen industry. Results, based on ten case studies and a one-year series of structured interviews, extend prior research by showing that these Indigenous entrepreneurs benefit jointly from two forms of capital: cultural and social. We found high levels of both forms to increase the desire for emancipation of cultural and community identity – not just individual identity – through entrepreneurship. Self-efficacy and storytelling helped ameliorate discontinuities across Indigenous and mainstream contexts. Our research sheds new light on how Indigenous ventures can pursue mainstream entrepreneurship while maintaining cultural identity. It also makes several distinct contributions to the Indigenous entrepreneurship literature. First, it provides an integrative theoretic review. Second, it illustrates a culturally appropriate methodology for researching Māori entrepreneurs with implications for other Indigenous communities. Third, it proposes cultural capital and social capital as a two-part framework for explaining Indigenous entrepreneurial action. Fourth, it shows how entrepreneurship can be empowering for Indigenous communities. Finally, our paper demonstrates that entrepreneurship is a promising mechanism for preserving and promoting the cultures of Māori and other Indigenous peoples.

Keywords: Indigenous entrepreneurship; culture; Māori (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-14
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Published in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2017, 30 (1-2), pp.118-145. ⟨10.1080/08985626.2017.1388445⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2017.1388445

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