The Problems of Correlation in the Financial Risk Management – the Contribution of Microfinance [PDF]
In this paper we first introduce microfinance institutions as an alternative investment instrument. We argue that beside socially responsible features of microfinance, there exists also significant portfolio enhancement opportunity in microfinance ...
Janda, Karel, Svárovská, Barbora
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An empirical analysis on the efficiency of the microfinance investment market [PDF]
This paper empirically analyzes the market efficiency of microfinance investment funds. For the empirical analysis, we use an index of the microfinance investment funds and apply two kinds of variance ratio tests to examine whether or not this index ...
Hamori, Shigeyuki, Inoue, Takeshi
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Performance of Microfinance Institutions: Do Risk Management Regulations really matter?
, 2023 Erick Mwambuli +2 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We use role congruity theory to examine how differing role expectations surrounding entrepreneur gender and race shape the influence of social responsibility rhetoric used in crowdfunding pitches. To do so, we develop a novel content‐analytic measure of social responsibility rhetoric using the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini (KLD) dimensions of ...
Aaron H. Anglin +4 more
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Is the Promise Being Fulfilled?...Microfinance in the Philippines: Status, Issues and Challenges [PDF]
Citing impressive gains in the last three years, the author points out the bright prospects for microfinance as a major source of financing for small farmers, fisherfolk and entrepreneurs in the coming years.
Llanto, Gilberto M.
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Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social‐Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This study advances the understanding of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in non‐Western contexts by theorizing how social‐symbolic work facilitates empowerment despite entrenched institutional and cultural constraints. Drawing on a qualitative study into the establishment of Kuwait’s first women’s business incubator, we explore how female ...
Mohsen Abumuamar, Juliane Reinecke
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Outreach and Sustainability of Rural Microfinance in Asia: Observations and Recommendations [PDF]
We in the community of microfinance specialists want to help alleviate poverty. We think microfinance is a useful tool. Yet, by bringing these two concerns together, we might be mixing up two diverging ends: one is poverty reduction; the other one the ...
Seibel, Hans Dieter
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Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge +4 more
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Microfinance in Uzbekistan : market overview and impact assessment needs [PDF]
Microfinance has a strong footing in Uzbekistan, the most populous country in the Central Asian region with a large fraction of inhabitants living in rural areas. Considered one of the key means of alleviating poverty and generating employment, the Uzbek
Nargiza Maksudova
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Microfinance and Third World Development: A Critical Analysis [PDF]
, 2004 Microfinance is emerging as an integral part of the new development paradigm, described by the phrase participation and development. Although the idea has become quite popular among donor agencies, development practitioners, and academicians ...
Danopoulos, Constantine P. +1 more
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