Purpose – The first French context of microfinance dates from the 1980's. As a matter of fact, the “grameen bank” model was imported at this time to France by M. Nowak, through her Association for an individual right to undertake: “Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Economique”...

This article studies the nature of links between solidarity-based finance and territories in two French West regions : Bretagne and Pays-de-la-Loire. We show how the theoretical links must be set up in two disciplinary fields of regional and economic geographic and, of proximities economics....

[eng] The possible forms of socially responsible otherness for the European banking community . The European banking community, seen as a link between the commercial banking sector and systems for social economy, seems to be falling into institutional isomorphism which is challenging the...

Purpose – The first French context of microfinance dates from the 1980's. As a matter of fact, the “grameen bank” model was imported at this time to France by M. Nowak, through her Association for an individual right to undertake: “ Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Economique...