An effective way to increase Indigenous participation in decision-making over territories and natural resources has been to create mechanisms for shared or joint decision-making with other bodies. This chapter addresses the co-governance and/or co-management of territories and natural resources...

This paper provides an exploration of current and emerging trends in Māori wellbeing using He Ara Waiora. The paper draws on quantitative evidence, including indicators from the LSF Dashboard and Indicators Aotearoa New Zealand. The analysis is also supported by qualitative evidence in the form...

Introduction: Ways of Managing, Organising and Decolonising Business Futures in Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific -- Indigenous Business in Australia: Opportunities, Tensions and New Futures -- Toward an Indigenous-led National Employment Narrative in Australia: Tackling Racism, Changing...

Domestically and abroad, government policies aim to increase afforestation and provide the many environmental and social benefits that afforestation can deliver. For multiply-owned Māori land in Aotearoa New Zealand, decision-makers often face extra challenges that may hinder their ability to...

The Treasury's new Living Standards Framework (LSF) was released in a Treasury paper in October 2021.1 The 2021 version of the LSF (LSF2021) is intended to better reflect children's wellbeing and culture, including being more compatible with te ao Māori and Pacific cultures. This original...

The theoretical challenge posed by this paper is to find a conceptualisation of value for entrepreneurship theory grounded in Indigenous knowledge from a Māori perspective capable of guiding entrepreneurs operating for sustainability and wellbeing. We review Western and Māori theories of...

Ko Aotearoa Tēnei – This is New Zealand/Aotearoa long awaited report of the Waitangi Tribunal on a number of claims about law and policy affecting Māori culture and identity. The Tribunal has painted New Zealand as poised at crossroads in race relations and the nation's sense of identity....

This chapter concerns the impact of trusts law and equitable principles and rules on a number of Māori related issues. In particular, the chapter focuses on the range of unique Māori land trusts that are growing in popularity as a management tool for Māori freehold land, and on the role of...

Without appropriate consideration for rights of Māori, universities, as gatekeepers of knowledge and information, can inadvertently become part of the wider misappropriation of mātauranga which is most notably documented in the Waitangi Tribunal's Wai 262 report. This paper argues that in...

This case arose out of a disagreement among the trustees for the Te Ngae Farm Trust as to who should benefit from the trust. The issue was whether the correct interpretation of the relevant clause of the trust order defined the beneficiaries of the trust narrowly as members of the hapū of...

This article is based on current research investigating Māori economies of well-being. A primary question is “what constitutes transformative and prosperous Māori economies of well-being?” The impetus for the inquiry is a surge in interest in strategies that reconcile multidimensional...

Collective leadership is cast as a new and emerging paradigm. However, for many Indigenous communities, collective leadership has been a way of life through the millennia. Where mainstream models of collective leadership focus on what people do, think, and feel in the here and now, we argue such...

Self-efficacy is a belief in one's ability to succeed in a specific situation or accomplish a task (Bandura, 1997) and is one of the most studied constructs in Western psychology, particularly concerning psychological well-being. A small number of studies links self-efficacy with positive...

Presently, entrepreneurship and innovation within market economies emphasise hedonic conceptualisations of value, in which consumers, on the one hand, are compelled to maximise their utility (the use and usefulness) from any given object (good or service) and producers, on the other hand, are...

Patents are theorised to serve a multitude of functions, ranging from incentivising invention and the dissemination of knowledge, to signalling certain capabilities and values, to structuring transactions and the commercialisation process. For all intents and purposes, these functions are...

"Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi" "With your contribution and mine, the people will prosper" The vision of the New Zealand Treasury is to promote higher living standards for all New Zealanders. The Treasury has always recognised that there are many possible ways to understand...

How does cultural identity matter for Māori economic decision-making? Te Rangahau o Te Tuakiri Māori me Ngā Waiaro ā-Pūtea | The Māori Identity and Financial Attitudes Study (MIFAS) aims to address this question. The MIFAS is the first large-scale (n = 7,019) nationwide study of Māori...

Research has shown that Indigenous people suffer significant health inequalities in comparison to dominant colonising cultures. Evidence shows that these inequalities can be addressed by gaining a deeper understanding of the social and cultural determinants of health, applying Indigenous views...

This chapter focuses on exploring social innovation among Māori entrepreneurs. The notion that social entrepreneurship (SE) has always been a core part of Indigenous entrepreneurship is supported by existing literature. However, the role of Indigenous worldviews and the entrepreneurial...