Ester Barinaga
Professor
Introducing micro-finance in Sweden
Author
Summary, in English
The case describes the first year of efforts to introduce microfinance as a tool to work with vulnerable groups in Sweden, more particularly ex-convicts, former drug-addicts and long-term unemployed women of immigrant background. The teaching objective is to discuss whether micro-finance can be seen as a tool to catalyze social change in developed welfare states such as Sweden, or if it rather reinforces the very power structures it aims to subvert. The author uses the case to analyse the efforts to introduce a new concept to well-established economic and social actors, as well as to understand the difficulties of building collaborations between actors with different logics. The analysis is threefold: 1. The mobilization and generation of social capital; 2. The conflict of logics/frames; 3. The frame alignment process set in motion by micro-finance
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Publication/Series
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
Volume
19
Issue
4
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Allied Academies
Topic
- Business Administration
Keywords
- microfinance
- social entrepreneurship
- sweden
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1532-5822