| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
SAGE business cases |
| Summary |
Over the last two decades, the Chinese Foundation for Poverty Alleviation's Microfinance Management Company (CFPA-MMC) has been transformed from a small microcredit project to a professional microfinance institute (MFI), and it is now in the process of establishing itself as an Internet-based financial company. CFPA-MMC is the largest and fastest-growing MFI in China that specializes in poverty alleviation and is a uniquely successful exemplar in China's social enterprise community. The case reviews CFPA-MMC's history, organizational transformation strategies, operational challenges, organizational structures, and management systems such as risk control, recruitment and training, and Internet-based finance. Students are introduced to social enterprises'--and particularly the MFI's--experiences in dealing with challenges specific to the social-political context in China. This case guides students to make decisions on several issues. First, how can a social enterprise strategically change its organizational structures and systems to achieve sustainable growth? Second, how can a social enterprise handle a legitimacy crisis and win stakeholder support? Third, how can a social enterprise effectively control risk and add value to clients by adopting IT technologies? Fourth, how can a social enterprise handle the tradeoff between organizational growth and social objectives? |
| Notes |
Originally Published InZhao, M., & Guo, S. (2017). CFPA Microfinance: Social Enterprise in Transformation. Beijing, China: Renmin University Business School |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on XML content |
| Subject |
Industries -- Social aspects -- China -- Case studies
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Microfinance -- China -- Case studies
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Industries -- Social aspects.
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Microfinance.
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China.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guo, Shuhao, author
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| ISBN |
9781529767933 |
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1529767938 |
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