Purpose: Small businesses are critical to economic health and encouraged in government spending by set-asides – annual small business sourcing goals that often are not attained. Little research has explored the negative and risky stigmas associated with small business sourcing....

The belief that people resist change is widely held in organizational life. This paper will explore that belief in a number of ways. The phrase "resistance to change" is unmasked by briefly deconstructing the term. A review of the literature suggests that there is no commonly held definition for...