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An examination of Indigenous Australian en Foley, Dennis Abstract There is little published literature available on urban contem entrepreneurs in Australia. The paper defines the Ind entrepreneur and provides an insight into the contempora which these entrepreneurs operate. Through case study analy cultural paradigm of success in entrepreneurial activity is exa commonalities among the participants, examining their educ expertise, their sacrifices and survival techniques in busines what makes them different from non-indigenous Australian study provides a framework or foundation for future resea entrepreneurs. Key words: Aboriginality, positivity, Australia, discrimination This article explores contemporary urban, successful Ind entrepreneurs. The purpose is to highlight the results of a qu analysis that examines the extent to which these entrepreneu indigenous entrepreneurs, and in which ways. Until recen literature has produced relatively few qualitative (or quantit indigenous segments of the global entrepreneurial community   Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are the most sociall culturally disadvantaged group in Australian society (Common 1992). Compared with any other section of Australian s  Australians have a higher welfare-dependency ratio, fewer ma work experience, and a much lower, almost non-existent ec 1985; Fuller, Dansie, Jones & Holmes, 1999; Hunter, 1999; Indigenous population also experiences discrimination employers, together with levels of unemployment of 38% to Spicer, 1997). Economically, Indigenous Australians have been and in poverty. Poverty is the result of the combined effects o policies, high unemployment, low levels of education, poor he of home ownership (Fisk, 1985; Pollard, 1988). Economic ind entrepreneurial activity in small business has been propose solution to welfare dependency (Fuller, Dansie, Jones & Holm 1998) and ensuing success in small business has the poten economic and social position of Indigenous Australians (A Torres Strait Islander Commission], 1998; Herron, 1998). I endorse the need for economic development and Indi (Djerrkura, 1998). Urban or semi-urban living is the fundamental structure of In society (Fisk, 1985) with 72.6% of Indigenous Australian's settings (ABS, 1999; Commonwealth of Australia, 2000). Ye study of urban Indigenous entrepreneurs involves a compi studies (Byrnes, 1988) that examines a broad range of en remote rural, rural and urban. The work successfully docu Indigenous enterprises, but it lacks academic rigor in two ke Indigenous enterprises in an ad-hoc process that does not status of the organization and includes not-for profit, comm and community-based trading entities. Secondly, it provi  This article aims to correct this void in the literature by prese a qualitative case study analysis that provides an insig Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs' environment, examinin extrinsic stimulus to business success. The article is structure Indigenous Australian and who is regarded as an entrep population. Secondly, it defines the Indigenous cultural para entrepreneurial activity. The final section of the article explor the contemporary successful urban Indigenous Australian entr Who is an Indigenous Australian Entrepreneur? Indigenous Australians are the 'Aboriginal' people of Australia words "Aboriginal' and 'Aborigine' is seen by some as race-bas 1993). For the purpose of the current research, 'Indigenou much as possible in lieu of 'Aboriginal'. An Indigenous Austra person who is of Indigenous Australian descent; they m Indigenous Australian and be accepted as such by the Indige which they live. This tri-part definition has been upheld by  Australia in Commonwealth vs. Tasmania (1983) and Gibbs vs With a population representation of only 2.2% (ABS,  Australians are statistically a minority within their own alienated from mainstream Australian society (Moreton Reynolds, 1990) and their commercial business activities are The social exclusion from the wider Australian community re entrepreneurs being ethnic outsiders to the dominant cul

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