Decoupling in Social ventures: One step forward two step backwards? Commercial Microfinance Organizations.

Common to all social ventures is that they blur the governance boundaries which have traditionally separated organizations with for profit and social goals. Is blurring sustainable or would alignment of governance form and practice eventually prevail? This paper explores this question in the context of commercial microfinance organizations. It contributes to institutional theory by furthering our knowledge on one of its basic tenets--the decoupling of form and practice--in the context of a new organizational form. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]