Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of social capital in a microfinance contract. Design …/methodology/approach – Systematic review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of social capital in microfinance. Findings – The … light of its different aspects which may be having different effects on the performance. For example, the trust between the …

profit sharing (PS) and conventional interest based (IB) microfinance contracts. In the four treatments, subjects were given …

of a microfinance program. Design/methodology/approach This is a systematic review of the theoretical and empirical …. However, the empirical literature does not yield a clear answer on how much of the success of microfinance programs can be … attributed to the effect of joint liability alone without considering the effect of other instruments used by microfinance …

While significant progress in microcredit and microfinance has been made in low‐income countries, lending for small … used to transfer the correlated natural disaster risks that often hamper the development of farm‐level microcredit. By … linking lending to IBRTPs, access to microcredit can be enhanced while also providing opportunities to offer mutual sharing of …

commerce and to compare the trust arbitration between reputation and loyalty in two cultures - Finland and Nigeria. Data was … reputation is stronger in Nigeria than in Finland and trust is a strong predictor of ease of use in Finland than Nigeria …. Furthermore, trust fully mediates the effect of reputation on loyalty in Finland and partially mediates the effect of reputation …

organizational responsibility for a crisis affect the effectiveness of the denial strategy in protecting organizational reputation … crisis interact with crisis response strategies to affect reputation and anger. Design/methodology/approach Two studies used … experimental designs to assess how denial interacted with determinations of crisis responsibility to influence reputation and anger …

business value. Originality/value While a great deal has been written about reputation and trust, the author believes that this …Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine and assess the importance of corporate reputation as a tool of business … strategy. The topic has been the subject of significant discussion particularly with respect to reputation rankings and metrics …

institutions, risk, reputation and trust are high on the boardroom agenda. The principal way of addressing the issues is through …

This paper aims to encourage PR practitioners to appreciate their role as the pivot of their organisation’s reputation … associations every 4‐5 years. Good conduct is essential for every PR practitioner as a reputation manager, and PR associations must …