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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
wiley   +1 more source

Deposit Guarantee Institutions In Microfinance Institutions In Indonesia: A Hope?

open access: yesYuridika
This research aims to analyze the depositors of funds’ legal protection in MFI through the existence of the Deposit Insurance Corporation. This legal research uses a statutory approach and a conceptual approach.
Trisadini Prasastinah Usanti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Microfinance Promise: To Provide the Poor Access to Finance Services [PDF]

open access: yes
In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microfinance.
Llanto, Gilberto M.
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Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to cooperative firms, characterized by worker ownership and management, as a way for organizations to address the economic, societal and environmental problems posed by corporate capitalism. This renewed interest stems from the potential of cooperatives to foster an alternative economic system ...
Jon Las Heras   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microfinance: A Poverty Reduction Tool, Socio-Economic Prospective [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Management and Research, 2015
This paper aims to critically evaluate the microfinance approach in social and economic perspective. Critical analysis reveals that microfinance can be used as an efficient tool to reduce poverty, thus contributing towards economic as well as social ...
Ada Jaffery, Dawood Mamoon
doaj  

MICROFINANCE– A WAY TO CONFORNT POVERTY AND STIMULATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORLDWIDE [PDF]

open access: yes
The study presents the microfinance sector, by analyzing the general context in which this type of economic activity has appeared and developed since early age. While microfinance clients have certain profiles, sector’s products are diverse.
Bachelor Marinescu Ana - Maria
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Inscribing Impact: Measurement Practices in the Making of Moral Markets

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Moral markets, designed to generate positive impact on pressing social and environmental challenges, are transforming traditional market practices by including more than economic considerations in their operations. The importance of these markets continues to grow as investors, regulators, and consumers increasingly put pressure on companies ...
Guillermo Casasnovas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A framework for regulating microfinance institutions [PDF]

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The continuum of institutions providing microfinance cannot develop fully without a regulatory environment conducive to their growth. Without such an environment, fragmentation and segmentation will continue to inhibit the institutional transformation of
Gallardo, Joselito   +2 more
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Whose Rhetoric Matters? Social Responsibility Rhetoric and the Moderating Influence of Social Roles in Crowdfunding Pitches

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

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