Minority Business Access to Mainstream Markets
Minority Business Access to Mainstream Markets
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少数族裔企业进入主流市场
DOI：
10.1111/0735-2166.00074
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Timothy Bates
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作者：
Timothy Bates
随着少数民族企业渗透到更广阔的国家市场向企业和政府客户销售商品和服务，产能问题也浮出水面。特别是在政府市场上，一种说法是，少数民族企业（MBE）比非少数民族企业更小，更年轻，因此它们往往缺乏有效竞争政府合同的能力。在这种观点看来，平权行动采购方案为不太合格的企业提供了优惠待遇，对占主导地位的、通常是白人男性的企业主群体产生了反向歧视。优惠采购计划的支持者提出的一个反诉是，根深蒂固的老男孩网络等歧视性障碍阻碍了MBE向主流市场的扩张。根深蒂固的网络真的阻碍了MBE，还是他们只是缺乏竞争能力？本研究的实证结果支持歧视性障碍的解释。
As minority-owned firms have penetrated the broader national marketplace—selling goods and services to corporate as well as government clients—the issue of capacity has surfaced. Particularly in government markets, one claim is that minority business enterprises (MBEs) are smaller, younger firms than nonminorities, and hence they often lack the capacity to compete effectively for government contracts. Affirmative action procurement programs, in this view, provide preferential treatment for less qualified businesses, generating reverse discrimination against the dominant, typically white-male group of business owners. A counterclaim, put forth by proponents of preferential procurement programs, is that discriminatory barriers such as entrenched old-boy networks impede MBE expansion into mainstream markets. Do the entrenched networks really thwart MBEs, or do they simply lack the capacity to compete? Empirical findings of this study support the discriminatory barrier explanation.