A Theory-based Empirical Study of Entrepreneurship in Iqaluit, Nunavut PDF Print E-mail
 

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Leo Paul Dana,
University of Canterbury

Teresa E. Dana,
Christchurch College of Education

Bob Anderson,
University of Regina

ABSTRACT. Findings of this exploratory study suggest that service firms in Iqaluit are often launched by former employees of larger firms who become entrepreneurs; these entrepreneurs are usually mainstream English-Canadians or French-Canadians, and growth is often important for them. In contrast, indigenous Inuit1 often identify more with the land and with sharing its resources than with Western-style mainstream entrepreneurship; their activities are often forms of informal and subsistence self-employment, such as hunting caribou, polar bears and seals for food and for pelts. Entrepreneurship among the Inuit is different in form and substance from the commonly accepted model, and one size does not fit all.

SOMMAIRE. Les constatations de cette étude préliminaire suggèrent que les sociétés de service à Iqaluit sont souvent lancées par d’anciens employés de plus grandes sociétés, devenus entrepreneurs; ceux-ci sont en general des membres de la majorité anglo-canadienne ou franco-canadienne, et pour eux l’expansion est importante. Par contraste, les indigènes Inuit s’identifient plus fréquemment avec la terre et le partage de ses ressources; leurs activités sont souvent des formes de subsistence et de travail à son compte informel, tel que la chasse au caribou, à l’ours polaire et au phoque pour la viande et les fourrures. L’entrepreneuriat Inuit diffère en forme et en substance du modèle courant: la même taille ne va pas nécessairement à tous.

 

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