Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian

For the past century, the human has been suffered by “Poverty”. Several attempts have been made to fight this particular moral challenge. Since last four decades providing small loans for the vulnerable entrepreneurs, which is called as “Microfinance”, has been known as one of the most efficient too...

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Main Author: Kazemian, Soheil
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19372/1/ABS_SOHEIL%20KAZEMIAN%20TDRA%20VOL%207%20IGS%2015.pdf
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description For the past century, the human has been suffered by “Poverty”. Several attempts have been made to fight this particular moral challenge. Since last four decades providing small loans for the vulnerable entrepreneurs, which is called as “Microfinance”, has been known as one of the most efficient tools for poverty alleviation. But conventional microfinance or “Microcredit Program” that is based on pre-determined interest may cause more issues for the borrowers, in terms of repaying back the loans. In addition, all contracts based on predetermined interest is strongly prohibited in Islamic rules, which is called “Shariah”. Therefore, for meeting Muslim clients of microfinance products who were not interested in using microcredit, based on avoiding getting predetermined interest, “Islamic Microfinance” was born in South East Asia. But, after three decades and despite of having great market, Islamic microfinance institutions (Islamic MFIs) still face un-sustainability (unsustainable performance) which can result in high poverty rate in this region. The main purpose of this study is to determine influences of three dimensions of market orientation, namely customer orientation, competitor orientation and inter-function coordination on two aspects of sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions (management sustainability and financial sustainability), in Malaysia that is considered as one of the pioneers in Islamic microfinance business…
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spelling oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:193722018-06-11T04:56:06Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19372/ Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian Kazemian, Soheil Microfinance For the past century, the human has been suffered by “Poverty”. Several attempts have been made to fight this particular moral challenge. Since last four decades providing small loans for the vulnerable entrepreneurs, which is called as “Microfinance”, has been known as one of the most efficient tools for poverty alleviation. But conventional microfinance or “Microcredit Program” that is based on pre-determined interest may cause more issues for the borrowers, in terms of repaying back the loans. In addition, all contracts based on predetermined interest is strongly prohibited in Islamic rules, which is called “Shariah”. Therefore, for meeting Muslim clients of microfinance products who were not interested in using microcredit, based on avoiding getting predetermined interest, “Islamic Microfinance” was born in South East Asia. But, after three decades and despite of having great market, Islamic microfinance institutions (Islamic MFIs) still face un-sustainability (unsustainable performance) which can result in high poverty rate in this region. The main purpose of this study is to determine influences of three dimensions of market orientation, namely customer orientation, competitor orientation and inter-function coordination on two aspects of sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions (management sustainability and financial sustainability), in Malaysia that is considered as one of the pioneers in Islamic microfinance business… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2015 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19372/1/ABS_SOHEIL%20KAZEMIAN%20TDRA%20VOL%207%20IGS%2015.pdf Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian. (2015) In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 7 (7). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian
title Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian
title_full Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian
title_fullStr Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian
title_full_unstemmed Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian
title_short Influences of market orientation on sustainability of Islamic microfinance institutions in Malaysia / Soheil Kazemian
title_sort influences of market orientation on sustainability of islamic microfinance institutions in malaysia soheil kazemian
topic Microfinance
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19372/1/ABS_SOHEIL%20KAZEMIAN%20TDRA%20VOL%207%20IGS%2015.pdf
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