Almansour, A Y, Alrawashdeh, N and Almansour, B Y (2020) The impact of capital structure on the performance of microfinance institutions. Management Science Letters, 10. pp. 881-888.
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Abstract
In this paper, the microfinance services are evaluated in the context of small-scale businesses in Jordan. The aim of this study is to emphasize on the importance of factors related to micro-finance as it helps in enhancing the firm’s performance. This study utilizes a quantitative approach to conduct a research on approximately 308 small-scale businesses. The study employs a method of confirmatory component analysis (CFA) held by applied Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) to achieve the research objective. The results demonstrate that performance was significantly associated with various micro-finance services such as training for managers, training skills, and loan size. In particular, micro-finance programs should be considered by small entrepreneurs, microfinance institutions, and policy makers. Thus, the contribution of this work is the incorporation of micro-finance factors on SMEs performance. Managers of the SMEs will find guidance about which micro-finance factors is the most important for them to be considered in their roles and for improving SMEs performance.
Affiliation: | Skyline University College |
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SUC Author(s): | Almansour, B Y ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0095-6398 |
All Author(s): | Almansour, A Y, Alrawashdeh, N and Almansour, B Y |
Item Type: | Article |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Microfinance, Business performance, Small enterprises |
Subjects: | A Business and Management > AH Finance |
Divisions: | Skyline University College > School of Business |
Depositing User: | Mr Mosys Team |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2021 15:41 |
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2021 17:56 |
URI: | https://research.skylineuniversity.ac.ae/id/eprint/5 |
Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.5267/j.msl.2019.10.008 |
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