Factors influencing funder loyalty to microfinance institutions

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 302-320

  Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña ^a   Serrano Cinca, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Loyalty; Microfinance; Outreach; Partial least squares; Sustainability; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749322219     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009333691     Document Type: Article

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