http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:277515 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z Smith, Dayle Kerry. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:204519 2010-04-28T00:00:00Z Von Sturmer, John Richard http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:8728 2006-01-25T00:00:00Z McGarry, Ben http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:188735 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z Stone, Bernard Felix http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:158161 2008-11-21T00:00:00Z Breakey, Noreen Maree http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185424 2009-11-04T00:00:00Z Boamah, Samuel. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:179923 This PhD research project views and examines the socio-economic environment of the urban Indigenous Australian entrepreneur. The proposed research project explores Indigenous entrepreneurs. As they experience enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation through success in business, do they identify less with Indigenous culture and more with the Anglo-European values of the dominant Australian or American culture? Do successful Indigenous entrepreneurs, in effect, need to take on or adopt values of the dominant Anglo-European culture to remain successful in business? Are there impediments/inhibitors existing that restrict business growth and subsequent success to the Indigenous entrepreneur? From case study analysis and literature review, is the Indigenous entrepreneur different in comparison with the non-indigenous entrepreneur? Does entrepreneurship free the Indigenous business person from the welfare system? These are the questions that this research attempts to answer. The project involved a case study analysis of twenty five contemporary urban Indigenous Australian entrepreneurs geographically spread from Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns and a few major regional centres. The Hawaiian study was similar with twenty five case studies from the major urban centres on the islands of Oahu, Molokai, Kauai, Hawaii and Maui. The Hawaiian study also included a control study of sixteen non-Hawaiian minority entrepreneurs to ensure that the Hawaiian findings were objective. Indigenous Standpoint theory was applied together with a Grounded theory approach to ensure that the research was based in an Indigenous epistemological approach to knowledge. Constant comparative coding was used to ensure the qualitative data was analysed using a semi structured format. The outcomes of the study provide a rich insight into the world of minority entrepreneurs who operate within post-colonial cultures of western dominance and negative stereotypes that have created welfare dependant societies. In summary the outcomes identify that the intrinsic motivator for Indigenous entrepreneurs is to provide for their family, to give their children a better life than what they experienced, and to escape the entrapments of poverty. Racism and discrimination combined with lack of capital and access to micro-credit were seen as the major inhibitors to business success. The Indigenous entrepreneurs are struggling to cast off the shackles of welfare, to no longer be at the mercy of successive government programmes. The study results indicate that success in small enterprise undertakings by Indigenous entrepreneurs is a move up from self management, success in entrepreneurial activity is self-determination for those entrepreneurs. The end result is one of micro-economic reform within the Indigenous families who benefit from the success in small business enterprise and entrepreneurial activity. Indigenous values in Hawaii were maintained with a strong connection to land and language, whether it be spoken or not by the entrepreneur. It was the values attached to language that included a strong work ethic, maturity and respect that were seen to be dominant issues. Within Indigenous Australia the result of genocide inflicted on successive Indigenous generations has not destroyed Indigenous Australian culture altogether. Strong views remain concerning protocol and ethics, what has evolved are contemporary Indigenous values that allow the Indigenous Australian to maintain cultural standards revolving around kinship in contemporary Australia. 2009-08-20T00:00:00Z Foley. Denis L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190014 2009-12-14T00:00:00Z Markovic, Milica http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:158465 2008-11-21T00:00:00Z Glover, Petra Sabine http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:151754 2008-07-03T00:00:00Z Quirk, Kate http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186233 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Tourky, Afaf http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184843 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Steel, Kathryn L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185278 2009-10-28T00:00:00Z McCormack, Paul Joseph http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190037 2009-12-15T00:00:00Z Goodall, Joseph B. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185462 2009-11-06T00:00:00Z Sutton, Peter http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186796 2009-11-17T00:00:00Z Hawkes, Valma Rae http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:238061 This thesis is a scholarly biography of the nineteenth-century Hobart bookseller, William Legrand (ca.1818 –1902). Currently an iconic figure, once a well-known amateur scientist, antiquarian, and local ―character,‖ Legrand produced the first book on Tasmanian land shells and secured scarce colonial materials for important collections of Australiana. This study argues that Legrand‘s past and continuing Tasmanian presence has greater significance than currently recognised. My archival research substantially increases existing knowledge about him. Applying theoretical knowledge in detailed analysis of existing and fresh material, I probe the cultural significance of Legrand‘s previously untraced links with historical figures, places, events, and intellectual movements. His many-faceted career offers valuable insights to developments in early Australian science and notions of national identity. The Introduction considers relevant theoretical concepts about biography, foregrounding issues influencing this biography‘s eventual hybrid form. The diversity of objects significantly associated with Legrand has called for the adoption of theoretical viewpoints other than those of biography in several sections. Chapter 1 explores the Legrand photographic portraits, several recently unearthed. I argue that three in particular are central to understanding Legrand‘s enduring cultural presence. By exploring all nine, I provide a useful overview of Legrand‘s Hobart career. Chapter 2 examines controversies and speculations about Legrand‘s pre-colonial life, investigating views by Legrand‘s contemporaries, alternative hypotheses, official records, and historical evidence. Its detailed exposition of a still-open line of enquiry and analysis of present findings provides a firm basis for further research into what may remain the mystery of Legrand‘s origins. Chapter 3, examining Legrand‘s colonial existence from 1855 to 1868, solves the mystery of his immigration and explores his attempts to forge a new life and gentlemanly career. I examine his links to developments in science and technology within the newly self-governing colonies, and explore wider implications of the previously unknown fact that Legrand briefly worked in Queensland. Chapter 4 examines Legrand‘s newspaper account of his 1869 visit to Recherche Bay. Long valued as rare primary source material about this significant remote settlement, the article gained increased relevance during recent campaigning to preserve heritage sites there. The chapter analyses Legrand‘s text in historical, literary, and biographical terms. Chapter 5 examines Legrand‘s later Hobart years, from 1869 until his death in 1902, approaching his complex career in terms of nineteenth-century models of self-improvement and the influences of imperialism and notions of ―rational amusement‖ on colonial science. The chapter analyses Legrand‘s chief conchological and antiquarian achievements in terms of their cultural and regional significance. It examines his intellectual, political, business, and social links. Chapter 6 moves from contemporary reports of Legrand‘s decline and death to the afterlives of things closely associated with his life, including possessions, reputation, photographs, anecdotes, letters, and a range of later tributes. The chapter then turns to recent evidence of Legrand‘s cultural afterlife: his incidental relevance to literary research on Marcus Clarke, his major importance for a literary work by Christopher Koch, and the ongoing popularity of one particular photograph of Legrand. The Conclusion reflects on Legrand‘s enduring cultural significance. 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Holloway, Joan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189814 2009-12-11T00:00:00Z Brown, Elaine Rosemary http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186752 2009-11-17T00:00:00Z Dennis, Valerie R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186817 2009-11-17T00:00:00Z McDonald, Margaret Mary http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184421 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z Hume, Lynne