Sydney – On Tuesday, May 17, 2016, Cape Breton University’s Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies released its first textbook titled Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices. The textbook was edited by Dr. Keith G. Brown, VP International and Aboriginal Affairs and Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies; Ms. Mary Beth Doucette, MBA-CED, P.Eng., Executive Director of the Chair; and Dr. Janice Esther Tulk, Senior Research Associate with the Chair.

The textbook has been a three-year long project and includes 14 chapters written by 20 authors from across Canada and the United States. Indigenous Business in Canada addresses contemporary concerns and issues in the practice of Aboriginal business in Canada, reveals some of the challenges and diverse approaches to business in Indigenous contexts from coast to coast to coast, and demonstrates the direct impact that history and policy, past and present, have on business and business education. The format of this volume is a hybrid, somewhere between a book of collected essays and a textbook.

“In 2012 we reached out to dozens of Aboriginal post-secondary students from 19 universities in nine provinces in a series of roundtables. The students told us they did not exist in any textbook or case,” says Dr. Brown. “They were, in fact, invisible to anyone who studied business in Canada. The driving force behind this book was to give voice to these students a ...

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