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Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability

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Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability: Indigenous Stories from Around the Globe

Edited by

James C. Spee

University of Redlands, USA

Adela McMurray

RMIT University, Australia

Mark McMillan

RMIT University, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

To Adela McMurray for inspiring and supporting the creation of this book every step of the way and to my wife Paige for her support in stressful times.

–James

To my parents and children, with love for all of time.

–Adela

List of Tribes and Clans by Chapter

About the Editors

Prof. Mark McMillan, Wiradjuri man, is the Member of the Trangie Land Council, and since March 2017 has served as Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Indigenous Education and Engagement at RMIT University in Melbourne. He previously served as an Associate Professor at University of Melbourne Law School.

Prof. Adela McMurray is a Professor of Management at RMIT University, Melbourne. She has extensive experience researching in public and private sectors and has published over 260 refereed publications. Adela has won several teaching and leadership awards. Her research addressing workplace innovation, organisational culture and climate, cultural diversity, risk management, and sustainability is internationally recognised.

Prof. James C. Spee is Professor of Strategy, Sustainable Business, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, USA. His lifelong interest in design thinking led him to focus his teaching and scholarship on sustainability and from there to helping entrepreneurs found sustainable startups in his community.

About the Contributors

Meena Chavan is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director in International Business at Macquarie University, Australia. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Intercultural Academy of Intercultural research. Her core research interests lie at the intersection of International Business & Entrepreneurship and Experiential learning and teaching.

Professor Brian L. Connelly is Professor and Luck Eminent Scholar in the Department of Management, Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, USA. He teaches and conducts research in the area of strategic leadership and negative organizational events. He is Editor of the Journal of Management, has published in other top management journals such as Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal, and regularly featured in top media outlets, such as The New York Times and USA Today.

Dr Andrew Creed is a Lecturer in the Department of Management in Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He teaches, researches and consults in organizational behaviour, change, learning and sustainability. He is published in quality journals, including Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Current Issues in Tourism, and European Business Review, and top imprints including, Palgrave, Emerald, Cengage and Oxford University Press.

Bella L. Galperin, PhD, is Dana Professor of Management and Senior Associate Director of the TECO Energy Center for Leadership at the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa. Her interests relate to cross-cultural management and entrepreneurship. She is former Associate Editor of Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal.

Lawrence W. Gross is the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Endowed Chair of Native American Studies at the University of Redlands in Redlands, CA. He is the author of Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being (2014).

Bruno Marques is Programme Director for Landscape Architecture and Senior Lecturer. At the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His main research interests relate to the integration of indigenous methods in participatory design in landscape rehabilitation and ecosystem services.

Dr Virginia Marshall is Wiradjiri Nyemba. She is the Inaugural Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University, with the Schools of Regulation & Global Governance and Fenner Environment & Science. Virginia is the leading legal scholar on Indigenous Australian water rights and author of the award-winning seminal book Overturning Aqua Nullius (2017).

Jacqueline McIntosh is Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her main research interests are design-led culturally appropriate participatory design for improved health and well-being.

Dr Faye McMillan is Associate Professor Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia. Dr McMillan is a Wiradjuri yinaa (woman) from Trangie, NSW. Faye is the 2019 NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year and a Senior Atlantic Fellow. She is Australia's first registered Aboriginal Pharmacist. Her research interests are in Nation Building and Indigenous women in leadership roles.

Salahudin Muhidin is a Senior Lecturer in Demography at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has been involved in both research and teaching roles, especially at Management Department for the subject of International Business and Applied Demography.

Rosemary Mwipiko (Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, New Zealand) is an Analyst working for the Environmental Health Indicators (EHI) team at the Centre for Public Health assisting with data visualisation. He is currently pursuing a Post-Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Science at Victoria University of Wellington.

Dr Chioma Ohajunwa is Lecturer at the Centre for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and has a PhD in Health Sciences Rehabilitation focused on African indigenous spirituality and wellbeing and an MPhil in Disability Studies. He is currently involved in a transdisciplinary research on contextualization of indigenous knowledges within Medicine and Theology and disability policies within Africa.

Dr Ruth Hephzibah Orhoevwri (University of Otago, New Zealand) is Nigerian and has a PhD in Maori entrepreneurship from University of Otago, and an MSc in Business Administration from Umeå University, in Sweden. She currently works as an Intelligence and Insights Specialist with Inland Revenue in Wellington, New Zealand.

Dr Tamara Stenn (Landmark College, US) is a US Fulbright Scholar, Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship, and a Coordinator for the HDCA Indigenous Peoples Thematic Group. Her research interests include economic well-being, indigenous wisdom, and sustainable development.

Dr Deborah Wardle (RMIT University, Australia) is a Researcher in the Office of Indigenous Education and Engagement at RMIT. She is published in Australian and international eco-humanities journals. Her research interests include narrative expressions of groundwater.

Dr Farooq Yousaf holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Newcastle, NSW. He has previously completed his Master's in Public Policy from the University of Erfurt in Germany. His research interests include critical theory, traditional methods of conflict resolution and postcolonialism.

Associate Professor Ambika Zutshi (Deakin University, Australia) teaches and researches corporate social responsibility, business ethics, higher education and supply chain management. She has published in International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Cleaner Production, European Business Review, and the International Journal of Environmental and Sustainable Development. She is Australasian and Associate Editor of European Business Review, Emerald.

Preface

Organizational stakeholders increasingly seek products and services that are produced and distributed in ways that balance the Triple Bottom Line of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Definitions and expectations for sustainability, however, have often been dominated by non-Indigenous perspectives. This book gives voice to the ways sustainability has been enacted by cultures and communities that pre-date modern civilization by hundreds and sometimes thousands of years.

The book includes hands-on case studies on sustainability from a variety of clans and tribes, industry sectors, and global regions. The chapters explore five interdisciplinary themes relating sustainability to civilizations, entrepreneurship, leadership, politics and public policy, and health and well-being.

The book is a valuable resource for educators and students in business, environmental studies, race and ethnic studies, and interdisciplinary courses. It will help them see global issues through new lenses. Industry professionals will see in overlaps between tribal and clan perspectives and best practices in fields such as human resource management and entrepreneurship. For example, in their book The Startup Community Way, Feld and Hathaway (2020, p. 18) describe Startup Communities using terms such as putting startup founders first, giving before you get, having an intense love of place, recycling resources back for the next generation, and organizing through networks of trust, not hierarchies. Readers will see that the focus on relationships has always been a vital part of sustainability in tribes and clans. We thank the members of those groups for sharing their knowledge with us.

Acknowledgements

The editors gratefully acknowledge the dedicated hard work of RMIT research assistants Chamindinka Weerakoon and Deborah Wardle for their tireless assistance in managing this manuscript, our authors and reviewers.