Te Maea’s goal is to advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research and teaching for, by and with Māori and Indigenous communities and enterprises.
We aim to undertake relevant research and to develop the next generation of Māori business leaders. We work with academics, practitioners and community members from across the University of Otago and beyond.
Otago Business School Strategic Imperative (PDF)
Māori Strategic Framework (PDF)
Our research
We undertake research in a number of areas including:
- Māori and Indigenous entrepreneurship
- Māori small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Māori innovation and research and development
- Māori and Indigenous tourism
- Māori not-for-profit and social enterprises
- Māori business and enterprise policy
- Environment and Māori economy
- Māori and Indigenous data sovereignty
- Māori and Indigenous gaming
- Corporate social responsibility and Indigenous people
Current and past funded Māori focussed economy and business research projects
- Māori and the future of work
- Māori and indigenous traditional and colonial economies
- Māori language and economy
- Māori economy and health
Network members
- Dr Katharina Ruckstuhl, Kaitohutohu [Director], Office of Dean, Otago Business School
- Associate Professor Diane Ruwhiu, Management Department
- Dr Maria Amoamo, Management Department
- Dr Jeff Foote, Management Department
- Associate Professor Anna Carr, Tourism Department
- Associate Professor Kirsten Robertson, Marketing Department
- Professor Merata Kawharu, Centre for Sustainability
- Dr Graham Strong, Centre for Innovation
- Professor Nathan Berg, Economics Department
- Associate Professor Anaru Eketone, Social and Community Work
- Dr Damien Mather, Marketing Department
- Dr Sriya Kumarasinghe, Accounting Department
- Dr John Williams, Marketing Department
- Dr Mathew Parackal, Marketing Department
- Professor Michelle Thompson-Fawcett, Geography Department
- Dr Louisa Choe, Office of Dean, Office of Dean, Otago Business School (Post-doc)
- Dr Rafaela Costa Camoes Rabello, Office of Dean, Otago Business School (Research Fellow)
- Taikawa Tamati-Elliffe, Office of Dean, Otago Business School (Kaiāwhina)
Other Māori Business Research Centres with which Te Maea researchers collaborate
- Dame Mira Szászy Research Centre, Auckland University
- Te Au Rangahau, Massey University
- Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato
