Social innovations create social change or disruptions in society. These disruptions can be both positive and negative. Social perceptions on the benefits as well as the costs of change may influence society's reaction to the social innovation. A change in social perception may trigger Black...

The paper presents a social innovation as an innovitve 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,...

Type of Paper: Exploratory, descriptive, case study Objectives: In the wake of the global crisis, the role of the financial markets is being questioned and new forms of social innovations focusing on stakeholder governance and cooperation are being experimented. This paper looks into one such...

One way by which microentrepreneurs can increase their ability to take debt is to take equity alongside, thus respecting prudent ratios and reducing stress. But microequity has not developed in most of the developing world. At the same time, since 1983, microequity has been started in France...

Research purpose The paper discusses the realistic theory of social entrepreneurship wherein social entrepreneurs sell dreams to society and create and capture value by story-telling. The study sees if visions and mission statements of social entrepreneurs tell different stories.Research...

Management theory has examined static concepts at the level of the social entrepreneur and of the social enterprise. In this contribution, we examine the work of the social entrepreneur at the unit level and the social enterprise at the organizational level. Based on the exemplar of...

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature reviews and descriptive research to present different aspects of the relationship of the microfinancial services to microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from...