Research on the Relations between Government and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) in Policy Formation

摘要

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (Hereinafter referred to as SMEs) are playing an extraordinarily important role in the market because of its flexible and prompt proactive behavior to the changeable market. However,government agencies now confront the dilemma of how to improve the enabling environment for SMEs' development and growth in terms of the related legislation and regulation.Moreover,It is essential for government to assess the policy impact to understand whether its decisions are effective or not,as well as its future role. This paper aims to address the gap of little communication between government and the other stakeholders during its policy formation and policy implementation and subsequently advice to create a dialogue channel for that on the basis of the focus group interviews conducted and completed by the authors early this year. This paper concludes that since there is a dialogue gap between government and businesses,the government agencies shall consider involving its stakeholder group into the whole policy process through more communication and dialogue. Meanwhile,as our previous research reflects,most of small sized businesses are vulnerable and easily neglected in the policy process,therefore,they should be cast more concerns by government in the future with the purpose to cultivate small businesses and their clusters.