The institutional context of poverty: State fragility as a predictor of cross‐national variation in commercial microfinance lending

By Joshua K. Ault, André Spicer. 2014

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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What is challenging renewable energy entrepreneurs in developing countries (2016, background): “Innovative strategies such as micro-financing and microlending, as well as alternatives to the conventional purchase model (such as technology leasing and fee-for-service (ESCO) models) are potential solutions [16,80,82,95].”
International entrepreneurship: The pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders (2018, background): “…contexts on the enterprises that support entrepreneurs’ pursuit of opportunities, such as venture capital and microfinance, thereby providing a multilevel perspective of institutional effects (e.g., Ault 2016; Ault & Spicer, 2014; Cumming & Knill, 2012; Zacharakis, McMullen, & Shepherd, 2007).”
Necessity or Opportunity? The Effects of State Fragility and Economic Development on Entrepreneurial Efforts (2019, methodology): “Building on previous research by Ault (2016) and Ault & Spicer (2014), we study the national context determinants of entrepreneurship using state fragility.”
Funding Financial Inclusion: Institutional Logics and the Contextual Contingency of Funding for Microfinance Organizations (2016, background): “Because most MFOs are located in developing nations where there are varying levels of political and financial uncertainty, this is an important issue (Ault & Spicer, 2014;Mair et al., 2012).”
How do resilience and self-efficacy relate to entrepreneurial intentions in countries with varying degrees of fragility? A six-country study (2020, methodology): “Recent work on state fragility and entrepreneurship that examines conflict, poverty, government legitimacy, rule of law, lacking institutions (Amorós et al., 2019; Ault and Spicer, 2014; Webb et al., 2020) and positive entrepreneurial responses during times of adversity (Branzei and Abdelnour, 2010;”
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets (2015, background): “Such conditions are problematic because they create additional uncertainty and challenges for firms (Ault & Spicer, 2014).”