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Ester Barinaga. Photo.

Ester Barinaga

Professor

Ester Barinaga. Photo.

Introducing micro-finance in Sweden

Author

  • Ester Barinaga

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

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Allied Academies

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • microfinance
  • social entrepreneurship
  • sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1532-5822