Māori Business Research: Information and Resources

Business & Economics Information Services (BEIS) and Māori Studies

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The Library catalogue

To locate items held in the Library on a certain subject, you can conduct a Subject Heading search.

Useful subject heading terms include:

Māori (New Zealand people) Commerce
Business enterprises Māori
Māori (New Zealand people) Economic conditions
Māori (New Zealand people) Economic conditions 21st century
Māori (New Zealand people) Social conditions
Māori (New Zealand people) Social conditions 21st century

Alternatively use the Guided Keyword Search option, combining relevant terms eg Māori and entrepreneurship. This will also pick up chapters in books - click on full view within the record to get a list of chapter contents. To search for journal articles you will need to use the databases.

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Databases
 

NZ focused databases

To help you locate NZ magazines and newspapers in the library system look at Finding NZ business magazines in the library

International databases (these can contain NZ material)

  • ABI/Inform - international business database with some NZ coverage. Most articles are available full-text.
  • Business Source Premier - international business database with some NZ coverage. Most articles are available full-text.
  • Factiva - company profiles and news articles. Good database for current international and NZ news.
  • General Onefile (Expanded Academic) - multidisciplinary database, some good NZ coverage.

For a complete listing of Business and Economics databases see the BEIS databases page

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Economic overviews
 
A selection of mostly recent publications on the topic

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Company Information
 
  • Company information can be sourced from a variety of places. 
  • Depending on the type of information required, it may be necessary to look in a number of resources.
  • Confidentiality or commercial sensitivity will be the most likely reasons for some information not being available.
  • For small and most unlisted companies information is very limited, particularly financial information. 
  • It may be useful to do a GUIDED KEYWORD search on Voyager to find company information in books or chapters in books.
  • Additional resources to check include databases which index journals and newspapers, such as Index New Zealand, Newztext, ANZ Reference Centre, Factiva, ABI Inform or Business Source Premier. You can often piece together information about a company by analysing information from journal and newspaper articles
  • Google searching may be fruitful.

Consult the NZ Company Information guide for more help.

Business assistance

Websites and directories

Reports and articles

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Māori Land

  • Crown Forestry Rental Trust - assists Māori to prepare, present and negotiate claims against the Crown, which involve, or could involve, Crown forest licensed lands .
  • Iwi maps - from TAKOA Rua-mano
  • Māori Land Information - Te Puni Kokiri. Includes access to the Māori Land Information Base (MLIB)
  • Māori Land Court Minute Books Index (University of Auckland staff and students only)
    an index of over 1,100 minute books from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Māori Land Court Districts covering the period 1865 and 1910.
  • Māori Land Online - Ministry of Justice
  • Māori Land Legislation Database (University of Auckland staff and students only)
    provides a summary of all New Zealand legislation since 1840 which has affected Māori or Māori land. Commentary provides information on the historical context and impact of each act 
  • Māori Trust Office - the Māori Trustee exists to assist Māori to manage their land and assets
  • Treaty of Waitangi - overview from NZ History Online
  • Waitangi Tribunal
  • Waitangi Tribunal Reports (University of Auckland staff and students only)
    database provides information on the structure and role of the Waitangi Tribunal, information on the claims settlement process, and full text Tribunal reports. Not all published reports are available full text online

The Library's Māori land topic guide and Resources for Māori Land Law from the Davis Law libary contain some extremely useful material.

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Entrepreneurship
 

Topic guide

Library topic guide on Entrepreneurship

Websites

  • Māori innovation - Foundation for Research Science and Technology . "The purpose of our Māori research and innovation strategy is to unlock the innovation potential of Māori resources, knowledge or people for the benefit of New Zealand".

Reports and articles

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Māori Business and Economic History
 

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Statistical Sources
 

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Links by topic
 
Government

Other organisations

Employment and training

  • Mahi.co.nz : provides Māori-focused employment opportunities.

Farming - Reports and articles

Fisheries

Forestry - Websites

Forestry - Reports and articles

Media and broadcasting - Websites

Tourism - Websites

Tourism - Articles

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Educational institutions
 

Universities

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Theses, dissertations and other research
 

Theses and dissertations page on the library site helps you search for theses held at the University of Auckland and elswhere.Te Puna the National Bibliographic Database, produced by the National Library of New Zealand, has both New Zealand and some international theses. In an ADVANCED search you can construct searches using keywords eg. thesis Māori business. (make the search KEYWORD ANYWHERE).

The Union List of Higher Degree Theses is an annual print bibliography of theses lodged in New Zealand libraries, with coverage going back to 1910. Available from the New Zealand & Pacific Quick Reference shelves Level G in the GENERAL LIBRARY, Call No. 013.37895 U581

  • Internet Gateway: Other libraries Access the online catalogues of the other New Zealand universities
  • Kiwi Research Information Service. A gateway to open-access research documents, such as theses, produced at universities,
    polytechnics, and other research institutions in New Zealand. It provides a single gateway to the content of New Zealand research repositories such as the University of Auckland's ResearchSpace.

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Other links
 

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Comments and suggestions to: Margaret Tibbles or Anahera Morehu
Last updated: 17 June, 2011