A growing body of social-scientific literature drawing on the experience of village-based northern bush economies demonstrates that adaptation to industrial economy entrepreneurial opportunities is both difficult and problematic. An analysis of the basic social and administrative structures of the bush, industrial and "next" economies (those focused on information and service) reveals that the bush economy has many shared structural parallels with the next economy and that this congruence can be exploited by members of the bush economy seeking next economy business opportunities. In particular it is noted that the bush economy household unit of production has strong affinities to the re-emergence of small businesses based on a family model, generalist skills, cooperative management, utilization of appropriate new technology, disintermediation and emphasis on the integration of work with the entrepreneur's cultural and personal values. A model is proposed for community-based share offerings and is developed to include community corporate culture, local employee training and the creation of new business opportunities. This model emphasizes the retention of locally generated capital in the community and its utilization for the start-up of a variety of businesses in the information and service sector. Key words: village and bush economies, next (information and service) economy, native economic development, community-based development, entrepreneurship &SUMÉ. Un nombre croissant de documents sociaux-scientifiques qui s'appuient sur l'expérience des économies naturelles du Nord A partir de villages, montre que l'adaptation aux opportunités qui découlent de l'esprit d'entreprise dans une économie industrielle, est A la fois difficile et problématique. Une analyse des structures sociales et administratives fondamentales de I'économie naturelle, de I'économie industrielle et de la "prochaine" économie (celle qui se concentre sur l'information et les services) révble que cette dernibre et l'économie naturelle ont des structures parallbles sur bien des points. L'analyse révble aussi que cette congruence peut être mise B profit par les membres de I'économie naturelle qui cherchent des opportunités d'affaires dans la prochaine économie. En particulier, on remarque que l'unité familiale de production de 1'6conomie naturelle a de fortes affiiités avec la réapparition de petites entreprises fondées sur le modble familial, le savoir-faire polyvalent, la gestion coopérative, l'utilisation de nouvelles technologies appropriées, la suppression des intermédiaires et l'accent mis sur l'intégration du travail aux valeurs culturelles et personnelles de l'homme d'affaires. On propose un modble pour des offres d'actions dans la communauté, qui est ddvelopp6 pour inclure la culture corporative de la communauté, la formation des employés sur place et la création de nouvelles opportunitds dans les affaires. Ce modble met l'accent sur la rétention dans la communauté du capital créé sur place, et son utilisation pour faire démarrer une variét...
A recent paper entitled "Native and Local Economics: A Consideration of Economic Evolution and the Next Economy" (Robinson and Ghostkeeper, 1987: 138-144) by the authors proposed a model for community-based native business development based upon the fusing of community culture with corporate culture in the information and service economy. This model has now been implemented by a Metis entrepreneur in the northern Alberta settlement of Paddle Prairie and is evaluated using the "unified approach" to economic development described by Higgins and Higgins (1979). In this way the new venture's performance is assessed against the following criteria: employment generation, income creation, contribution to regional ecological harmony and maximization of cultural enrichment. It is concluded that the Paddle Prairie Mall Corporation is a practical demonstration of the unified approach in Canada's mid-North and that the "Metis way of doing things," born of the bush economy, is an indigenous Canadian variant of the unified approach that acknowledges the importance of sociocultural and ecological factors in development planning. It remains to be seen whether or not the Metis way of doing things has an Inuit or Indian analogue and to what degree the next economy model can be equally well applied in non-Metis native communities. Key words: community-based economic development, unified development, bush and next (information and service) economies, Metis, case study RÉSUMÉ. Dans leur récent article intitulé <
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