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Indigenous Management
Knowledges & Frameworks
Edited by:
- Jesse Pirini
- Stephen Cummings - The University of Sydney Business School, Australia
- Ana Maria Peredo - Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada
Courses:
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Introduction to Cultural Studies
May 2026 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Indigenous knowledge systems are a profound contribution to our understanding of management and organizations but have long been overlooked and repressed. Through a wide array of chapters, which span five continents and five core concepts of: stories, place, politics, communities, and business, this book showcases Indigenous approaches to, and frameworks for, good management, organization and entrepreneurship.
A diverse collection of contributions includes chapters on Indigenous self-determination, organization studies, allyship, organizing and resistance, cultural appropriation and community-based enterprises from a global community of scholars spanning New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, India, Bali, the Philippines, Ghana, Greenland, Canada, the US and beyond.
Written and edited by experts in the field, this book is essential reading for students, academics, and private, public and third sector leaders in management, organization and entrepreneurship.
Jesse Pirini is Senior Lecturer in Management at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Stephen Cummings is Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ana Maria Peredo is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo
Chapter 1 Introduction to indigenous management: knowledges & framework
PART I Protocols, Stories and Foundations
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo
Introduction to Part I
Patricia Saulis
Chapter 2 Beginning with a circle
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Chapter 3 Knowing oneself, knowing connections, knowing worldviews – Te Ao Maori’s Mihimihi and Pepeha
Naida Culshaw
Chapter 4 Being Differently: Navigating the “De” to the “Re”
Ana Maria Peredo
Chapter 5 Rethinking Wealth: A Journey into the Aymara Economy
Meeghan Hall and Rhonda Thompson
Chapter 6 He Pa Mataora—a Maori approach to building research
Ni Nyoman Clara Listya Dewi
Chapter 7 The Power to see Indigenous Heroes: The Creation of a Bali’s Luh Ayu Manik Mak
Caithi Cummings
Chapter 8 The Dúchas Project: The Intergenerational Preservation of Irish Tales
Alonso Tipacti
Chapter 9 The Value of Musical Story Compilation and Stewardship
Rick Colbourne, Ana Maria Peredo and Irene Henriques
Chapter 10 Reclaiming Connections to Prosperity on Turtle Island
Hinematau McNeil and Sonia Mehana
Chapter 11 Reclaiming Indigenous Passing: The Impact of Colonisation on Tangihanga
Jen Manning
Chapter 12 Imbolc and Brigid’s Day: Reinstating Indigenous Celebrations
Ana Maria Peredo, Stephen Cummings, Jesse Pirini and Noora Kassab
Chapter 13 Reconciliation in Action - How IARIMOS is Nurturing Indigenous business scholars
Ben Walker
Chapter 14 Walking the Tightrope: Indigenous Self-Determination vs. Indigenous Self-Stereotyping
José Marcelo Maia Nogueira
Chapter 15 Yanomami Knowledge: Organizing from Dreams
Emily Salmon
Chapter 16 Resetting: lessons I wish I had learned earlier that I would like to pass on
PART II Land Air and Connection to Place
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo
Introduction to Part II
Shelley T. Price
Chapter 17 The Ecological Knowings of the Heart Mind Body and Soul
Olivia Metcalfe, Ash Francisco and Mark Jones
Chapter 18 Connecting with Country: Encouraging Greater First Peoples Participation in Business School and Business Development
Andrea Wallace, Florence Villesèche and Stina Teilmann-Lock
Chapter 19 Intellectual Property and Colonial Dispossession: Design-Based Learning with Minecraft
Jill Purdy
Chapter 20 Indigenous Ecological Approaches
Ben Walker and Stephen Cummings
Chapter 21 Sustainable Management is not New Knowledge
Dyan Mabunga Rodriguez
Chapter 22 The Matigsalug Agsam Band: Colonialism-Resistant
Iliana Loupessis, Sonia D. Wesche, Colin Rennie and Joseph Wabegijig
Chapter 23 The National Indigenous Climate Compass – Co-creating a digital climate knowledge center to address local-scale priorities
Savi Hanning-Brown
Chapter 24 Autonomy in Motion: Skateboarding for Indigenous Empowerment
Michael B. Elmes and Ingrid Shockey with Tara Bromfield, Andrew Cash, Ian Gunn, Sarah Olson, Thomas Pianka, Kereana Sims and Rawiri Smith
Chapter 25 Building Community with Indigenous Partners: WPI (Worchester Polytechnical Institute) and the Glistening Waters Project
Benedikte Brincker
Chapter 26 How do we share the catch? Exploring the infrastructures of Indigenous management
Claudia Eger and Adriana Budeanu
Chapter 27 Thinking Sustainability with Indigenous Knowledges: A ‘Hybridity’ Perspective
Ella Henry
Chapter 28 A Kaupapa Maori Framework for Management
Jessica C Lai and Jesse Pirini
Chapter 29 Meeting in the Middle? The Law and Management of Haka Ka Mate
PART III Politics and Voice
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo
Introduction to Part III
Bobby Banerjee, Stephen Cummings, Stephanie Decker, Ana Maria Peredo and Jesse Pirini
Chapter 30 A Manifesto for Decolonizing the Business School Curriculum
Caroline Chapain, Marcia Dunkley, Ann-Christine Frandsen, Anita Lateano, Rweyemamu Ndibalema and Emma Surman
Chapter 31 Reinterpreting the local: discovering hidden stories through walking
François Bastien, Diego M. Coraiola and William M. Foster
Chapter 32 Indigenous Peoples and Organization Studies Revisited
David Meharg and Leanne Cutcher
Chapter 33 Allyship
John Huria
Chapter 34 He korero kotuia: Weaving our voices, carrying our knowledges
Vijayta Doshi
Chapter 35 Reclaiming Who Is Indigenous in the Indian Context
Stephanie Daher and Ana Maria Peredo
Chapter 36 A Manifesto for Engagement in the ‘Politics of Translation’
Peter Moroz
Chapter 37 The Duty to Consult
Tshinta Morris
Chapter 38 A Personal Perspective on Business Relationships and Partnerships in Australia
Natalie Bryant
Chapter 39 How to use the Indigenist Critical Policy Analysis framework
Jose Luis Alvarez Ramos
Chapter 40 Incorporating Indigenous Dimensions in Conflict Resolution
Ricardo Antonio Segovia
Chapter 41 Indigenous organizing and resistance in the Peruvian Amazon: The Four Watersheds
Illili Ahmed
Chapter 42 Sinnquee
Belinda Zakrzewska
Chapter 43 Indigenous cultural appropriation: The case of Shipibo-Konibo craftswomen’s art in the Peruvian fashion industry
Kate Kenny
Chapter 44 Indigenous theory of organizing from the island of Ireland
Mark Jones and Michael Torres
Chapter 45 The Evolution of a First Peoples Scholars Research Framework
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo
PART IV Social and Community
Ana María Peredo
Chapter 46 Indigenous Community-Based Enterprises (ICBEs): A Future Shaping Framework
Leon C. Prieto and Simone T. A. Phipps
Chapter 47 The Legacy of Indigenous African Traditions in African American Management Thought
William Asamoah Owusu, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama and George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong
Chapter 48 Nnoboa: The Indigenous Organisation for Labour and Financial Mobilisation
Christian Barika Igbeghe
Chapter 49 From Tradition to Transition: Indigenous Story Frameworks of Sustainable Management and Organizing
Jason Paul Mika
Chapter 50 Manahau: Managing for sustainability and wellbeing in Maori enterprise
Tera McDonald
Chapter 51 Productivity Through a Mi’Kmaw Lens
Saheli Nath
Chapter 52 Cultivating Tradition: Entrepreneurially Bridging Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Food Markets
Daysha Tonumaipe’a and Radilaite Cammock
Chapter 53 Food Havens and the Strength of Using a ‘Strengths-based approach’
Diane-Laure Arjaliès and Julie Bernard
Chapter 54 The Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond
Ester Barinaga
Chapter 55 Rethinking Interest: The Communal Economics of Kenyan Table-Banks
Murdith Mclean and Ana Maria Peredo
Chapter 56 Reimagining Social Innovation: An Indigenous Approach to Sustainable Change
R. Sandra Schillo, Denise Anne Boissoneau and Guy Dancause
Chapter 57 Weaving Indigenous Knowledge and Western Entrepreneurship Tools for the National Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs’ Ecosystem (NIWee)
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Rebecca Bednarek
Chapter 58 The Development of the Ruruku Strategy Canvas
Stephanie Daher, Lucimara Lag Koziclã Patte, Leonice Tupari and Têce-Agir Strore (Loja Têce)
Chapter 59 ‘The Mother of All Struggles’: Indigenous Womens’ development of the BHR Framework
Samantha Cooms
Chapter 60 Stories of Care: How Quandamooka Frameworks for Living can Transform Support
PART V Business and Organization
Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo
Introduction to Part V
Ash Francisco and Michelle Evans
Chapter 61 The ‘Indigenous Economic Power Project’: Towards an Indigenous Economic Leadership Narrative
Rongo Wetere and Marcia Krawll (in korero with Jesse Pirini, Stephen Cummings and Ana Maria Peredo)
Chapter 62 What if the Biggest University was an Indigenous University? Rongo Wetere and the growth of Te Wananga o Aotearoa
Chellie Spiller
Chapter 63 Tahito
Audrey Maria Popa and Ana María Peredo
Chapter 64 Beyond Grants: Indigenous Conservation Finance Innovations in Canada
Majda Soumane and Laurent Beduneau-Wang
Chapter 65 The Progressive Reconfiguration Role of Carpet Making in the Siroua Mountains
Lena Prouchet
Chapter 66 Awajún and the Rainforest Chocolate Factory
Julie Mallet
Chapter 67 Unlocking Self-Determination: Indigenous fishing practices and Entrepreneurial strategies
Bryan Solorzano Bajaña
Chapter 68 Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Insights from Ecuador
Jacobo Ramirez
Chapter 69 Estrella’s Story: Intersectionality, Gender, Indigeneity, Business
Rick Colbourne and Annaleena Parhankangas
Chapter 70 Utilizing Crowdfunding as a Lifeline for Indigenous Entrepreneurs
Mark Jones and Luke Williams
Chapter 71 The McDonaldisation of Relationships, Respect and Opportunities for First Peoples at the Collide-oscope
Christian Eva
Chapter 72 Indigenous Procurement Policies: Supporting Growth in Indigenous Enterprise
Irene Henriques, Rick Colbourne, Ana Maria Peredo, Robert Anderson and Ray Wanuch
Chapter 73 Transforming Indigenous Procurement as a Lever for Growth
Kawheras George in conversation with Noora Kassab
Chapter 74 Is the system designed for people like me? Definitely not. Do I want to overhaul it out of spite? Absolutely
Lucas Conde Stocco, Gasodá Paiter Suruí, Lara Bartocci Liboni, Luciana Oranges Cezarino and Oana Branzei
Chapter 75 Meeting the Family and Knowing Through Kinship: Patience, Reverence, and Silence
Jeff Ganohalidoh Corntassel
Chapter 76 Everyday Forms of Leadership to Carry with You
Robert B. Anderson
Onward: Our Braided Journey
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