New Frontiers in the Internationalization of Businesses

Introduction

Indigenous Business Context and Contributions

This book explores the internationalization of Indigenous businesses, and interestingly, this book answers the question of what is new about the internationalization of Indigenous businesses by comparing this context to mainstream (non-Indigenous) businesses. We use data from privately owned Indigenous businesses (not owned by the band or community) and data from non-Indigenous businesses in Canada. In particular, in the first five chapters, we employ data of international Indigenous and non-Indigenous businesses based in Alberta and British Columbia. In the last three chapters, we center on a representative sample of Indigenous businesses based in all provinces of Canada. Chapters ...