Editors’ note on special issue on indigenous knowledges, priorities and processes in qualitative research

Editors' note on special issue on indigenous knowledges, priorities and processes in qualitative research Though scholarship on Indigenous organizations, practices and methodologies is rapidly growing alongside the burgeoning sub-discipline of Indigenous business and management, such research is not often reported in "mainstream journals."Rather, the research is commonly concentrated in Indigenous-or ethnic-focused journals.Recognizing the importance of these topics for all scholars, the editors of the journal of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management invited us (the guest editors) to conceive of a special issue that would enable qualitative researchers and organizational management scholars to engage with the richness of Indigenous ways of knowing and the innovations resulting from methodologies that honour centuries-old knowledge and wisdom.As researchers of Indigenous organizations, management and policy, we called for a special issue that would bring Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to the broader discussion of qualitative methods in organizations and management.During the past decades, there have been important contributions to qualitative research methodologies for research in Indigenous contexts.Alongside the emergence of Indigenous ethics review boards in institutions, scholars have suggested ethical frameworks for research with Indigenous peoples (e.g.Ellis and Earley, 2006 on issues of consent and reciprocity).Increasingly, researchers are engaging in applied research that is useful to the communities involved, employing action research methods to solve problems (see Carpenter and McMurchy-Pilkington, 2008).Relationships between researchers and research participants are being challenged and redefined, empowering Indigenous peoples to collect, analyze, interpret and control research data instead of participating in projects as "subjects" (see Tomlins Jahnke and Gillies, 2012).Indigenous ways of knowing, embedded in oral traditions, are informing research design and implementation, as well as the communication of research results, for example, through digital storytelling (Cunsolo-Willox et al., 2012;Wachowich and Scobie, 2010;Marsh, 2009).These shifting orientations and approaches respond to calls by Indigenous advocates and communities for the decolonization of institutions of higher education and research methodologies employed by academics in their work with Indigenous peoples (Mihesuah, 1998;Tuhiwai Smith, 1999;Brown and Strega, 2005;Wilson, 2009;Chilisa, 2012;Battiste, 2013;Strega and Brown, 2015).Business scholars Weir and Wuttunee (2004), alongside their peers in the humanities and social sciences, have observed that the data collection undertaken in Indigenous communities and organizations rarely benefitted Indigenous peoples.Consequently, Hindle and Moroz (2010) asserted (based on Schnarch, 2004) that Indigenous research requires "methodologies […] built upon frameworks grounded within long standing Indigenous knowledge management techniques, ensuring ownership, control, access and possession" (p.376).Indigenous researchers will make an important contribution to the expanding discipline of Indigenous business through expert knowledge in research design and implementation, as well as advocacy (Hindle and Moroz, 2010, pp.376-377).While culturally responsive and sensitive research protocols are needed to advance the study of business, entrepreneurship and management in Indigenous contexts (Kayseas et al., 2008), the value of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in diverse business contexts is increasingly being recognized (Love and Tilley, 2014, pp.35-36) and may inform new theoretical perspectives and practical approaches.Directly linked to research and practice, international policy bodies have affirmed Indigenous rights to protect and control their own knowledges.The United Nations

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