Our team engages in both applied and commissioned research by applying indigenous research principles.
Current Research
- Mobilizing for Socioeconomic Well-Being: Exploring Spaces for Indigenous Engagement within the Economy
- Multimedia storytelling with Indigenous youth and post-secondary students: Youth co-creation of a vision for sustainable development as a strategy toward reconciliation (with Kim Matheson)
- Mapping Indigenous Economic Venture Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
- Rebuilding Dispersed Indigenous Communities: Creating a Joint Urban Reserve (with Kim Matheson)
- BC First Nation Housing Shortfall Assessment
- Indigenous Works and Sprott School of Business: Collaboration for Reconciliation in Action (with Kelly Lendsay and Craig Hall, Indigenous Works)
- Advancing Intersectional Analyses of Entrepreneurship: A critical exploration of entrepreneurial activity in Canada and the United Kingdom (with Vadim Grinevich, University of Wolverhampton)
- Two-Eyed Seeing, Grand Challenges and Wicked Problems: Indigenous-led Responses to the Neoliberal Restructuring of Cities and Urban Centres (with Peter Moroz, University of Regina)
Recent Publications
- Henriques, I., Colbourne, R., Peredo, A. M., & Anderson, R. (2020). Relational and Social Aspects of Indigenous Entrepreneurship: The Hupacasath Case. In R. Colbourne & R. Anderson (Eds.), Indigenous Wellbeing and Enterprise: Self-Determination and Sustainable Economic Development. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
- Mika, J. P., Colbourne, R., & Almeida, S. (2020). Responsible Management: An Indigenous Perspective. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, E. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), The Research Handbook of Responsible Management. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.
- Colbourne, R., Moroz, P., Lendsay, K., Hall, C., & Anderson, R. (2019). Indigenous Works and Two Eyed Seeing: Mapping the Case for Indigenous-led Research. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (Special Issue: Indigenous Knowledge, Priorities and Processes in Qualitative Research).
- Colbourne, R., & Anderson, R. (2019). Economic Wellbeing of the Indigenous People in the Asia Pacific Region: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development. In C. Fleming, M. Manning, & A. Miller (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing (pp. 184-193). London, United Kingdom: Routledge Publishing.
- Colbourne, R. (2017). Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Hybrid Ventures. In A. Corbett & J. Katz (Eds.), Perspectives and Approaches to Blended Value Entrepreneurship: Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth (Vol. 19). Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing.
- Colbourne, R. (2017). An understanding of Native American entrepreneurship. Small Enterprise Research, 24(1), 49-61. doi:10.1080/13215906.2017.1289856