This study focuses on the supplemented strategies of micro-finance institutions (MFIs), in which the MFI offers non-financial services, such as entrepreneurship related knowledge, in addition to financial services to impoverished borrowers at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP). We examine two...

This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external finance on credit markets. Special emphasis is put on small...

This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external finance on credit markets. Special emphasis is put on small...

Covid 19 pandemic, digitalization, Green Deal - Mittelstand companies will face great challenges in the next years besides their sector and size-specific tasks. Derived from Mittelstand research, we outline which legislative motions and support measures policy makers need to pay attention to in...

Micro, small and medium enterprises have contributed significantly to the industrial development in the country, particularly in the rural sphere. They have added distinctly to the output and also to the employment generation in our country. The country is endowed with abundant natural, mineral,...

It is found that organizational pattern of MSME industries places them at a distinct disadvantage vis-à-vis the Large Scale Enterprises. It is due to this peculiarity of Micro and Small Enterprises, ‘Murphy’s Law’ i.e., “if anything can go wrong, it will’ squarely applies to them....

This paper aims to listen and understand the voices of the self-employed workers of a shrinking traditional iron kitchen utensil making microenterprise cluster based at Patardih village of Deoghar district in state of Jharkhand in India. The point of view of these self-employed workers have been...

Este artículo muestra el nivel de desarrollo alcanzado en el capital social en una empresa de la industria metalmecánica de la región centro del Estado de Coahuila; el capital social, es considerado como la capacidad de un colectivo humano para generar procesos de interacción social que...