Indigenous knowledge systems offer a profound contribution to our understanding of management, organization, and entrepreneurship but have long been overlooked or repressed.
In Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks, experienced and emerging Indigenous scholars and collaborators from across five continents come together to illustrate four common sympathies that can inform this contribution:
- The importance of protocols,
- Acknowledging place,
- Promoting multiple voices, and
- Community accountability
These Indigenous perspectives on management and organisation offer different ways of knowing, practicing, and supporting sustainability, development, inclusion, innovation and entrepreneurship.
It is essential to see how these different ways may be rooted in quite different worldviews—different conceptions of how elements of reality are distinguished and how they are related, how we come to know things, what it is that we already know, and what values range over these factors.
Created by experts in the field, this book is essential reading for students and academics, as well as private, public, and third-sector leaders.
E-copies, paperback, and hardback versions of the book can now be purchased through the SAGE website and other book selling platforms.
Inspection copies are also available for instructors of relevant courses.
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Consultations during the inaugural IARIMOS conference shaped the thinking that we need a lively, interactive textbook equipped with teaching tools designed to showcase and amplify Indigenous knowledges from a diverse array of Indigenous nations and communities.
Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks includes chapters on Indigenous self-determination, organization studies, allyship, organizing and resistance, cultural appropriation, and community-based enterprises from a community of scholars spanning New Zealand, Australia, Melanesia, Bali, the Philippines, India, Peru, Brazil, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, Greenland, Canada, the US and beyond.
Edited by:
- Jesse Pirini - Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Stephen Cummings - The University of Sydney Business School, Australia
- Ana Maria Peredo - University of Ottawa, Canada, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada
April 2026 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The book is complemented by a growing library of online resources hosted on this website. These include videos, podcasts and images, that support readers to extend their learning beyond the page.
Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Their editorial support and publication reach enables us to co-create resources to transform teaching and learning of Indigenous management.