Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong
This paper utilizes the Shifting the Burden Archetype (Senge/Stroh) to document a systemic pattern that is unfortunately, often unconscious to the parties involved and inadvertently leads to the undermining of corporate or government/Indigenous relationships, despite best intentions. Based on over a...
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| author | Daniel D. P. McCarthy Christine A. Daly Alexandra Davies Post Gillian Donald Jean L’Hommecourt Bori Arrobo Gregory Hill |
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| description | This paper utilizes the Shifting the Burden Archetype (Senge/Stroh) to document a systemic pattern that is unfortunately, often unconscious to the parties involved and inadvertently leads to the undermining of corporate or government/Indigenous relationships, despite best intentions. Based on over a decade of experience in these contentious contexts, the author(s), document a set of interacting feedback loops that illustrate an unfortunate set of patterns of behaviour, based on starkly different worldviews, in which the choice to engage in more superficial attempts at relationship building actually undermines the ability of the parties to engage in the more difficult but fundamental solution of trust-based relationships. Recommendations for interventions in these typical or archetypal relationships will be made based on an understanding of the dynamics of the system and process design. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-70637b312ff048a4b2f5d4e58561b5112025-08-20T02:21:58ZengMDPI AGSystems2079-89542025-06-0113645210.3390/systems13060452Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go WrongDaniel D. P. McCarthy0Christine A. Daly1Alexandra Davies Post2Gillian Donald3Jean L’Hommecourt4Bori Arrobo5Gregory Hill6School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadaSchool of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadaSchool of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadaFort McKay First Nation, Donald Functional & Applied Ecology Inc., Calgary, AB T9H 3G4, CanadaSustainability Department, Fort McKay First Nation, Fort McKay Rd, Fort McKay, AB T9H 3G4, CanadaSustainability Department, Fort McKay First Nation, Fort McKay Rd, Fort McKay, AB T9H 3G4, CanadaConcurrent Appointments in the Departments of Mathematics and Environmental Studies, University of Portland, Portland, OR 97203, USAThis paper utilizes the Shifting the Burden Archetype (Senge/Stroh) to document a systemic pattern that is unfortunately, often unconscious to the parties involved and inadvertently leads to the undermining of corporate or government/Indigenous relationships, despite best intentions. Based on over a decade of experience in these contentious contexts, the author(s), document a set of interacting feedback loops that illustrate an unfortunate set of patterns of behaviour, based on starkly different worldviews, in which the choice to engage in more superficial attempts at relationship building actually undermines the ability of the parties to engage in the more difficult but fundamental solution of trust-based relationships. Recommendations for interventions in these typical or archetypal relationships will be made based on an understanding of the dynamics of the system and process design.https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/13/6/452corporate/indigenous relationsindigenous methodologiesminingreclamationsystem archetypessocial innovation |
| spellingShingle | Daniel D. P. McCarthy Christine A. Daly Alexandra Davies Post Gillian Donald Jean L’Hommecourt Bori Arrobo Gregory Hill Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong Systems corporate/indigenous relations indigenous methodologies mining reclamation system archetypes social innovation |
| title | Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong |
| title_full | Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong |
| title_fullStr | Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong |
| title_short | Shifting the Burden: Corporate Indigenous Relations and How They Can Go Wrong |
| title_sort | shifting the burden corporate indigenous relations and how they can go wrong |
| topic | corporate/indigenous relations indigenous methodologies mining reclamation system archetypes social innovation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/13/6/452 |
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