Crowdfunding has become important in recent years. However, there is no comprehensive
overview of the economic literature on this topic. This paper provides an overview of …

Crowdfunding has grown quickly and attracted significant scholarly attention. However, the
diverse approaches to crowdfunding that have emerged, as well as the uncertain …

Interactions between project creators and backers on the crowdfunding platform represent
the linchpin of every campaign. However, the resulting internal social capital has received …

Despite the exponential growth of crowdfunding in recent years, research on the role it plays
in business internationalization is still embryonal. Building on the Resource Based View …

Online crowdfunding means relying on the Internet to seek financial support from the
general public. In this paper, we examine success factors in the social capital networks of …

Start-ups often face the challenge of a shortage of capital, the so-called funding gap, which
can be overcome by raising small amounts of money from a large number of individuals. As …

This study investigates the advocates of crowdfunding projects. Advocates refer to
individuals who have invested in a project, and the information of such endorsement is …

The new and increasingly popular tool of crowd-funding is widely used by non-profit
organizations in China to raise money online for their charitable projects. In order to use this …

Increasingly, frontiers between business and philanthropy seem to be blurred. Reward-
Based Crowdfunding platforms contribute to this blurring of lines since they propose funders …

Crowdfunding recently emerged as an alternative funding channel for entrepreneurs. We
use pledge-level data from Startnext, the biggest German platform, to gain insights on …