Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Australia: Theoretical Elucidations and Research Avenues

In SME research stream, indigenous entrepreneurship is comparatively less researched. A major source of indigenous entrepreneurs’ social capital is their relationship and interaction with non-indigenous entrepreneurs. However, the challenges of non-indigenous entrepreneurs to profoundly share the social capital with indigenous stakeholders/entrepreneurs is under-researched too. Following this background, this chapter reviews literature at the intersection of indigenous entrepreneurship, socio-economic capacity building and stakeholder relationship management to explore insights on the how capacity building concept could strategically influence indigenous entrepreneurs’ cause and consequence of relationships and interactions with their non-indigenous stakeholders. The analysis presents a precis for a research direction to influence indigenous and non-indigenous entrepreneurs’ relationships to enable non-indigenous entrepreneurs to co-create value in association of their non-indigenous stakeholders, in order to progress with their SMEs.