...Samer Al-Shami; Abdullah Al Mamun; Safiah Sidek; Nurulizwa Rashid Purpose This paper aims to explore the specific causes of failure among Malaysian female entrepreneurs who were provided with financial services by the microfinance institution: Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM) to start up their own...

... and performance through improved regulator action and bank public disclosure. Social Implications “Masking” and rituals ( Andon and Free, 2012 ) restricted bank disclosure and weakened governance and market pressures on banks. These factors mediated bank failure and survival in 2008, as “psychic prisons...