Public Procurement and Small Businesses: Estranged or Engaged?
研究“代表性不足”的小企业主如何参与公共采购机会，基于制度主义框架分析结构因素与内部资源如何影响企业战略选择，识别出四类不同知识、态度和能力的企业群体。
How do “under-represented” business owners engage with public procurement opportunities? Extant studies tend to offer prescriptions rather than theoretically guided responses to this question despite the importance of public procurement as a tool for economic development. Drawing on Edwards et al.'s (2006) institutionalist framework on small firm behavior, this paper examined the complex, subtle, interplay of structural factors and internal resources in shaping small firms' strategic choices and identified the existence of four discernible groups of under-represented businesses with differentiated levels of knowledge, attitude, and capacity, from those unwilling and unable to seek supply opportunities to those aspiring and able to engage.