Social entrepreneurship offers innovative solutions to solve social challenges, but it tends to remain small and local. This paper aims at exploring the decision-making processes as an organisation navigates a scaling path, including the internal cracks and tensions in its structure. The enquiry...

Can improved access to credit jump-start microenterprise growth? We examine subjects in urban Hyderabad, India, six years after microfinance–an intervention commonly believed to lower the cost of credit and spark business creation–was randomly introduced to a subset of neighborhoods. We find...

This paper connects the return to entrepreneurship and firm growth decisions in a dynamic investment model with limited access to external financing. When additional assets can effectively relieve financing constraints, the entrepreneur values dollar return more than its face value for firm...

Economic survey 2013-14 published by the government of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) provides that of the total population of 1.25 Crores, 24.21 Lakh are below the poverty line. This includes even those people who are financially excluded. Government of India in the year 2010 made it mandatory for...