Competition policy and SME policy: Strange bedfellows

• Main Authors: Tan, Wee Liang, POH, Lip Hang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Small and medium enterprises; government policy; Asian Studies; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4404; https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814695817-005
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Public policies often have differing objectives. In an ideal world, these different goals would be compatible and complementary, fitting neatly alongside each other; as the oft-misquoted lines from Kipling’s poem above prima facie suggests, they would not meet or conflict. In truth, however, Kipling...