Indigenising Enterprise Structures (MGMT90305)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2025
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This subject introduces students to the breadth of Indigenous enterprise structures operating across the First Peoples economic landscape contributing to economic self-determination. Enterprise structure and its associated business model is at the core of understanding Indigenous business leadership, as it denotes the commercial considerations and practical interactions between Indigenous entrepreneurs and the economy. Commencing with the debunking of the notion that being in business is entirely Western and un-Aboriginal, the subject introduces interface theory, extended to commercial market exchanges, captured as the ‘The Collide-oscope’, providing a lens to make sense of how First Peoples Founders straddle the tensions of ‘working in two worlds’. The subject examines a range of commercial structures starting with the emergence of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and collective sovereign membership entities to sole traders, partnerships, small to medium and large enterprises. Further structures such as joint ventures, trusts, and the role of intellectual property in the ownership, control and management of Indigenous enterprises are discussed. Collaboration with Indigenous Economic Development Agencies as enablers of the Indigenous estate linked to preferential procurement policies is further deliberated linked to enterprise structures including the surfacing of ‘black cladding’.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Identify and demonstrate an integrated understanding of Indigenous enterprise structures
- Explain and critically analyse structural tensions existing within the entrepreneurial ecosystem pertaining to Indigenous enterprises
- Demonstrate understanding of Indigenous enterprises structural evolutions that enhance engagements with other enterprise eco-system actors contributing to the expansion of the Indigenous estate
- Offer considerations of how Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing can and are being integrated into Indigenous organisational structures
- Apply best practice enterprise structural considerations contributing to Founder aspirations of economic self-determination
Generic skills
- Critical evaluation of evidence in support of an argument or proposition
- Problem solving in management through the application of appropriate management theories, principles and data
- Demonstrate a capacity to successfully engage in collaborative activities such as group-based work and activities
Last updated: 4 March 2025