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Featured article: “Relational Wellbeing and Wealth: Maori Business and an Ethic of Care”. Care is at the heart of the Māori values system, which calls for humans to be kaitiaki, caretakers of the mauri, the life-force, in each other and in nature. The relational Five Well-beings approach, based on four case studies of Māori businesses, demonstrates how business can create spiritual, cultural, social, environmental, and economic well-being. A Well-beings approach entails praxis, which brings values and practice together with the purpose of consciously creating well-being and, in so doing, creates multi-dimensional wealth. Underlying the Well-beings approach is an ethic of care and an intrinsic stakeholder view of business.
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You may also be interested in Spiller, C., Pio, E., Erakovic, L. & Henare, M. (2011). Wise Up: Creating organizational wisdom through an ethic of kaitiakitanga. Journal of Business Ethics, June
Nga mihi mahana ki a koe - Warm greetings to you from Aotearoa New Zealand
About Chellie
Chellie is Maori (from the Ngati Kahungunu tribe) and Pakeha (New Zealander of European descent). She has a doctorate in Maori business at the University of Auckland and a Masters in International Relations through Victoria University. Her research shows why and how all businesses can create relational wellbeing and wealth in terms of Five Wellbeings - economic, social, environmental, cultural and spiritual. Her research has been published and presented internationally and locally. She lectures, writes, and researches at the University of Auckland Business School (from January 2011). In November 2011 she undertook a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to Havard University and the University of Arizona - which extended her research to include Native American perspectives of Indigenous business: chellie@xtra.co.nz
