As pharmacy has become a "dual market" industry in today's market, Australian pharmacists face difficulties in combining business skills with professional and patient-oriented skills. Australian pharmacists face a threat to their profession as decreasing industry regulations may allow...

The 2000 GEM report on Australia indicates that thecountry is one of the most entrepreneurial of the 21 countries in the 2000Global Entrepreneurship Monitor study. It ranks fifth in new firm participation(3.3% of the population owning all or part of a business established since1997); fourth in...

Indigenous peoples are increasingly developing enterprises in the form of partnerships to participate in the global economy. The pilot study investigates the Kitsaki initiative at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, near the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. To improve the socioeconomic...

The current socioeconomic circumstances of the Aboriginal people in Canada are abysmal. According to the 1991 census, 42 percent of Aboriginal people received social welfare, as opposed to 8 percent of the Canadian population as a whole. In the same year unemployment among Aboriginal people...