Research summary
How can communities mobilize their own resources to create enterprises that will contribute to a just and inclusive society while also respecting their own cultural values and natural environment? One way to address this question is to expand our narrow understanding of entrepreneurship.
Dr. Ana Maria Peredo, Canada Research Chair in Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship, is exploring how communities can mobilize their resources to address urgent problems, including poverty, inequality, exclusion, environmental challenges and post-war settings. She and her research team are studying community-based enterprises as a vehicle for tackling urgent social challenges and looking at Indigenous entrepreneurship as an instrument of decolonization. They are also exploring the need for system-level change to address the crises that face humanity-from inequality and the climate crisis to social and environmental justice.