The failures of the socialist model, evidenced by high unemployment, have led France to reorient itself towards more enterprise creation. These entrepreneurial ventures require financing. However, bankers do not want to assume the high risk of newly created enterprises. Moreover, small...

Connectivity in the information age, the attendant move to co-creating experiences with consumers, transaction cost economics associated with search costs in the wake of information overload, all suggest that brand value requires not only informing and dialogue, but also enabling discussion...

Microequity may be the key to overcoming stress of micro entrepreneurs who are over-exposed to micro-credit. French microangels are willing to invest small amounts to help people start their own business and move out of poverty. The French microangels invest through syndication in...

En France on parle beaucoup de l'accompagnement des micro-emprunteurs sur la durée de remboursement des microcrédits qu'ils reçoivent auprès des institutions de microfinance (IMF). Souvent indissociable du processus de financement, cet accompagnement financier suppose une prise en charge de...

L'étude présente en détail le processus de décision et d'implémentation d'un système informatisé de gestion (SIG) de type Open Source dans l'institution de microfinance (IMF) Airdie - active en Languedoc-Roussillon depuis 1994. Open Source signifie code source libre, donc la liberté de...

Little work has been done in the conjunction of Microfinance and Religion. This paper explores the findings of the extant research. It then provides future research directions on a number of subjects within this broad area, available for researchers from a large number of fields: anthropology,...

The paper presents a social innovation as an innovative business model with new social relations and indicates a few short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance service providers. The cases are from microcredit,...

Slow money, or patient nurturing capital invested locally in food and basic industries, is a new term but an old notion. This paper examines the cases of the CIGALES clubs of microangels in France and the more recent case of the slow money alliance to ferret out the basic principles and...