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...

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...

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: FINANCING THE THIRD SECTOR -- Overview of Part I: Financing the Third Sector -- Chapter 1 The...