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The rhetoric and reality of SME-friendly procurement

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  • Anthony Flynn
  • Paul Davis

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Small- and medium-sized enterprise-friendly policies are central to public procurement. The extent to which these policies have been put into practice has gone largely untested. To address this gap, a survey of SMEs' reported experiences of policy implementation was conducted. Ireland served as the research context. Policy implementation was found to be limited. Company size was a significant predictor of SMEs' experiences, with micro-enterprises more negative than small or medium-sized enterprises. The authors explain the policy-practice divide and make recommendations for improvement.

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  • Anthony Flynn & Paul Davis, 2015. "The rhetoric and reality of SME-friendly procurement," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(2), pages 111-118, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:35:y:2015:i:2:p:111-118
    DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2015.1007705
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    1. Kim Loader, 2018. "Small- and medium-sized enterprises and public procurement: A review of the UK coalition government's policies and their impact," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 36(1), pages 47-66, February.
    2. Tammi, Timo & Saastamoinen, Jani & Reijonen, Helen, 2020. "Public procurement as a vehicle of innovation – What does the inverted-U relationship between competition and innovativeness tell us?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 153(C).
    3. Timo Tammi & Helen Reijonen & Jani Saastamoinen, 2017. "Are entrepreneurial and market orientations of small and medium-sized enterprises associated with targeting different tiers of public procurement?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(3), pages 457-475, May.

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