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...

We study mission drift in social enterprises by examining whether these organizations stick to the actual mission enshrined in their mission statements. We use data from micro!nance organizations (MFOs), a homogeneous group of social enterprises which have been scrutinized—and sometimes...

Social enterprises combine social and financial goals. Previous studies have theorized the existence of a dual objective and maintain that it can lead to conflicts and create trade-offs. While the literature on trade-offs is extensively developed, empirical evidence is lacking on how the...