Crowdfunding is an innovative strategy for financing a new business venture from the
general public instead of seeking funds in traditional ways, such as issuing bonds or bank …

Purpose The paper takes stock of accumulated knowledge on factors impacting the success
of online crowdfunding (CF) campaigns while suggesting opportunities for future research …

This study draws upon the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (ELM) to develop and
test a model of persuasive influence in crowdfunding. To test our hypothesized relationships …

While equity crowdfunding provides ventures with an opportunity to collect funding from a
large base of investors, many campaigns tend to remain unsuccessful. We draw from two …

Reward crowdfunding is a popular channel for entrepreneurial fundraising, whereby
backers receive non-monetary benefits in return for monetary contributions while accepting …

When they lack resources to commercialize science, entrepreneurs rely on intermediary
organizations often within their local ecosystems. This paper seeks to improve our …

Crowdfunding has emerged as an effective method to raise fund for new venture creation
and success. Nonetheless, our knowledge is limited about motivations for the selection into …

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 …

Despite the omnipresent reach of the Internet, evidence exists that geography matters in
crowdfunding. This paper shows that some salient characteristics of the geographical area …

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