We examine the market reaction to charitable pledges by individual blockholders of public firms. As this philanthropy …

This paper studies philanthropy by multinational enterprises (MNEs) during institutional disruptions—the sudden and … poverty-gap avoidance. They offer evidence that company philanthropy in the aftermath of institutional disruptions may deviate … from predicted behavior under stable conditions. Particularly, the findings contest the expectation that philanthropy rises …

the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational … understand Irish microfinance in the early nineteenth century, a period of profound socio-economic and socio-religious change. It … seeks to explain the factors that motivated the establishment and de-establishment of microfinance institutions amidst this …

though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …

of microfinance. A binomial descriptive content analysis investigates the incidence of this so-called ‘green microfinance …' in a sample of forty microfinance institutions (MFIs) whose lending criteria were publicly available. We conclude that … although there might be several rationales to support the proliferation of green microfinance very few MFIs are embedding such …

. While we consider the study of Gandhi's life and thought to be of great pedagogical value for microfinance practitioners, we … them for his own purposes while discarding those parts he found to be suspect, so too the contemporary microfinance sector …

philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … all 31 provincial-level units of China. The data show that philanthropy practised by Chinese private enterprises is …