Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company - Definition
Written by Jason Gordon
Updated at December 17th, 2020
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What is a Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company?
The Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies (MESBICs) are government-chartered venture firms that invest in companies or organizations that are at least 51 percent owned by members of a minority group. Typically, venture firms provide funds for or invest in startups and developing companies.
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Academic Research on Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies
- The minority enterprise small business investment company program: Institutionalizing a nonviable minority business assistance infrastructure, Bates, T. (1997). Urban Affairs Review, 32(5), 683-703.
- Providing economic opportunity to small minority enterprises, Whistler, M. J., & Wichmann Jr, H. (1979). Journal of Small Business Management (pre-1986), 17(000004), 1.
- Characteristics of minority entrepreneurs and small business enterprises, Gomolka, E. (1977). American Journal of Small Business, 2(1), 12-21.
- Minority small business owners and their paths to ownership, Feldman, H. D., Koberg, C. S., & Dean, T. J. (1991). Journal of Small Business Management, 29(4), 12.
- Analysis of venture-capital funds that finance minority-owned businesses, Bates, T., & Bradford, W. (2004). The Review of Black Political Economy, 32(1), 37-46.
- Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies Mesbics, Mendelsohn, S. H., & Cerion, R. J. (1970). Howard LJ, 16, 744.
- Small business failure and survey of the literature, Berryman, J. (1983). European Small Business Journal, 1(4), 47-59.
- Capital problems in minority business development: a critical analysis, Knight, K. E., & Dorsey, T. (1976). The American Economic Review, 66(2), 328-331.
- Minority Enterprise Development and the Small Business Administration's Section 8 (a) Program: Constitutional Basis and Regulatory Implementation, Drabkin, J. H. (1982). Brook. L. Rev., 49, 433.
- Why do minority business development programs generate so little minority business development?, Bates, T. (1995). Economic Development Quarterly, 9(1), 3-14.