scholarly journals Survey and analysis of small business and minority business enterprise participation in solar energy procurement activity

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Minority Business ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Minority Business Enterprise

How Do Large Purchasing Organizations Treat Their Diverse Suppliers? Minority Business Enterprise CEOs’ Perception of Corporate Commitment to Supplier Diversity

2020 ◽  
pp. 000765032093697
Author(s):  
Ian Y. Blount
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Minority Business ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Informational Justice ◽  
Supplier Diversity ◽  
Corporate Commitment ◽  
Minority Business Enterprise ◽  
Minority Business Enterprises

Supplier diversity programs were created in the United States nearly 50 years ago to encourage private sector companies to provide business opportunities to underutilized minority business enterprises. In order to assess the experiences that minority business enterprise CEOs have with large purchasing organizations and their perceptions of justice and commitment of large purchasing organizations to the buyer–supplier relationship (BSR), this study utilizes survey data collected from 206 minority business enterprise CEOs who supply large purchasing organizations that espouse a strong commitment to supplier diversity. The theoretical framework of organizational justice is utilized to establish testable hypotheses. The results from hierarchical linear regression show minority business enterprise CEOs’ perception of large purchasing organizations’ commitment to the BSR is positively related to the distributive and informational dimensions of organizational justice. Surprisingly, the procedural dimension was found to have a significantly negative relationship. This research also found a significant, negative relationship between minority firm CEOs’ perception of distributive and informational justice and their perceptions of unethical behavior by large purchasing organizations.

Venture Capital Investment in Minority Business Enterprise: An Evaluation of MESBIC Investment Preferences

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-204
Author(s):  
R B McNaughton ◽  
M B Green
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Minority Business ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Financial Capital ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Minority Business Enterprise ◽  
Primary Problem

The encouragement of minority entrepreneurship is frequently advocated as a means of promoting social and economic development. The Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company (MESBIC) program pursues this goal by increasing the access of minority business enterprise (MBE) to both human and financial capital. This research provides an exploratory empirical description of the regional, industrial sector, and funding-stage preferences of MESBICs. It is concluded that these preferences are largely antithetical to the formation and expansion of MBEs in growth sectors that offer the market potential for entrepreneurial takeoff. The primary problem seems to be the small size of the majority of MESBICs. Policies governing licensing requirements and administration should therefore be reconsidered.

Black Power—Nixon Style: The Nixon Administration and Minority Business Enterprise

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Kotlowski
Keyword(s):  
Black Power ◽  
Federal Policy ◽  
Minority Business ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Minority Business Enterprise

In the recent debate over minority contract set-asides, many policy-makers have forgotten this program's origins. Richard Nixon, moved by philosophical, practical, and political considerations, made minority business enterprise a theme of his 1968 presidential campaign and his first administration. By using set-asides, the Nixon administration overcame its meager funding of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) and encouraged minority entrepreneurship. Nixon's actions influenced federal policy toward minority owned businesses for two decades.

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