Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature reviews and descriptive research to present different aspects of the relationship of the microfinancial services to microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from...

Research purpose The paper discusses the realistic theory of social entrepreneurship wherein social entrepreneurs sell dreams to society and create and capture value by story-telling. The study sees if visions and mission statements of social entrepreneurs tell different stories.Research...

Management theory has examined static concepts at the level of the social entrepreneur and of the social enterprise. In this contribution, we examine the work of the social entrepreneur at the unit level and the social enterprise at the organizational level. Based on the exemplar of...

Type of Paper: Exploratory, descriptive, case study Objectives: In the wake of the global crisis, the role of the financial markets is being questioned and new forms of social innovations focusing on stakeholder governance and cooperation are being experimented. This paper looks into one such...

One way by which microentrepreneurs can increase their ability to take debt is to take equity alongside, thus respecting prudent ratios and reducing stress. But microequity has not developed in most of the developing world. At the same time, since 1983, microequity has been started in France...

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Need for a Dynamic Theory on Social Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 2: Social Entrepreneurship Theoretical Work Has Been Static -- Chapter 3: Dynamics of a Life Cycle Theory Based on Developed Country Histories -- Chapter 4: Evolution of Developing Country Microfinance...

Based on a qualitative single case study with eight interviews, this study lays the foundation for literature on the motivation of transforming from a quasi-governmental entity to a social business. The context of this case study is the spinoff of business schools from the French chambers of...