Masters in Public Administration - MPA / Small enterprises (SMME) have become central to South Africa's efforts to
create jobs, alleviate poverty and develop the economy. SMMEs, however, face a
wide range of problems, with "market access" one of the key bottlenecks. This
centres (i.a.) around the ease of access to outsourcing markets of larger
corporations and public-sector procurement opportunities. To address some of
these specific challenges in the Western Cape, the Business Opportunity Network
(Bon) was established in 1995 as an NOO. It was at that stage a path-breaking
institution in the Western Cape, paralleled by only a few in the rest of the
country. It is the purpose of this minithesis to assess the role, operation and
evolution of the Bon.
This study examines the background and particular factors that lead to the
establishment of the Bon as a business-linkage organisation. Then critically
assess the actual process of how the Bon attempted to facilitate SMME access to
corporate and public-sector procurement in the Western Cape's metropolitan and
platteland areas from 1994 to 2004. Thereafter moving toward the evaluation of
the process, an assessment of the effectiveness of Bon's business-linkage efforts
in the light of a continuously changing and evolving procurement environment. It
is also the intention to reveal and assess how Bon's procurement support relates
to BEE efforts unfolding in the Western Cape
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7811 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Solomon, Paul Robert |
| Contributors | Thomas, Wolfgang |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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