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Profit orientation of microfinance institutions and provision of financial capital to business start-ups
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posted on 2016-06-01, 00:00 authored by A Z M Shahriar, S Schwarz, Alexander NewmanThis article examines whether the profit orientation of a microfinance institution (MFI) affects its decision to extend loans to business start-ups. Based on information from 198 MFIs in 65 countries, we show that for-profit MFIs are less likely to provide financial capital to business start-ups than their not-for-profit counterparts. This results from the adoption of a dominant ‘commercial’ logic by for-profit MFIs, which motivates them to maximize profit by extending loans to less risky ventures with mature projects. In contrast, a dominant ‘development’ logic motivates not-for-profit MFIs to alleviate poverty through supporting the creation of new ventures. The use of a propensity score matching technique to correct for any potential endogeneity problem provides us with greater confidence that the suggested association is not a spurious correlation.
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International Small Business Journal: Researching EntrepreneurshipVolume
34Issue
4Pagination
532 - 552Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTDPublisher DOI
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0266-2426eISSN
1741-2870Language
EnglishPublication classification
C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2016, SageUsage metrics
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