Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies

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dc.contributor.advisorOsiyevskyy, Oleksiy
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Cyril Robert
dc.contributor.committeememberOsiyevskyy, Oleksiy
dc.contributor.committeememberJones, Vernon James
dc.contributor.committeememberRadnejad, Amir Bahman
dc.contributor.committeememberDewald, James Richard
dc.contributor.committeememberPrete, Tiffany
dc.date2023-11
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-31T18:38:47Z
dc.date.available2023-05-31T18:38:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-17
dc.description.abstractThis research addresses a significant gap in understanding the barriers Indigenous peoples face as they pursue business and accounting disciplines at the post-secondary level. Using structured interviews and content analysis, the study explored barriers and means the learners used and opined to remove or reduce those barriers. In addition, the research offers policy recommendations, including but not limited to the accounting profession, to address these challenges. The research also examines Indigenous peoples’ attitudes toward the accounting and business profession. This practical approach, with application to the accounting profession, bridges the practitioner-scholar gap noted in extant research. The findings suggest that the challenges are complex and interconnected and are deeply socialized in the fabric of Canada through societal biases and structural impediments within institutions that directly result from government policy, reserves, and residential schools. The research highlights issues not previously identified in the literature, including lateral violence and anti-business stigma within the Indigenous community as well as identifying an ontological reductionist fallacy of grouping dissimilar peoples together and forming policy as programs as though these groups were homogenous. Moreover, the colonial legacy, legislative and regulatory environments create a unique context for the study. It concludes that the nature of the problem may best be understood as a “wicked problem” and that collaborative approaches are likely the most suited to addressing the identified barriers. A conceptual co-evolutionary framework is proposed to relate the various barriers, structural impediments, and resulting barriers to business education specifically but also to post-secondary education generally.
dc.identifier.citationAndrews, C. R. (2023). Understanding and addressing barriers to Indigenous learners in business and accounting studies (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/116584
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41427
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgary
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectbarriers
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples
dc.subjectFirst Nation
dc.subjectInuit
dc.subjectMétis
dc.subjectpost-secondary education
dc.subjectaccounting
dc.subjectbusiness
dc.subjectbusiness education
dc.subjectsystemic barriers
dc.subjectracism
dc.subjectlateral violence
dc.subjectanti-Indigenous stigma
dc.subjectCPA
dc.subjectChartered Professional Accountants
dc.subjectsystemic racism
dc.subjectinstitutional racism
dc.subjectIndigenous values
dc.subject.classificationAccounting
dc.subject.classificationBusiness Administration--Management
dc.subject.classificationEducation--Business
dc.titleUnderstanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineBusiness, Haskayne School of Business
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Business Administration (DBA)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudentI do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.
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