Purpose This paper gathers initial evidence about the nature and features of the equity
crowdfunding model in Italy, especially in terms of regulations. The purpose of this study is to …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the central users (hubs) in the dissemination
of equity crowdfunding (EC) news on social media, with particular regard to Twitter …

Start-ups are new businesses, which need a good amount of equity to finance investments.
Crowdfunding is an alternative instrument to collect money. It does not need the intervention …

Thanks to fundraising from small investors, principally through social media and online
forums, equity crowdfunding (EC) is emerging as an important new financing mechanism for …

Currently, the economic landscape is in a state of rapid transformation. The millennium
development phase was succeeded by a global financial crisis that radically altered the …

Social and solidarity economy enterprises and organizations (SSEEOs) are designed to aim
towards value creation for specific publics (typically marginalized publics, Santos 2012) or …

In serving as editor of this special issue of PIJ on crowdfunding, I want to pursue two main
goals. Obviously, on the one hand, it is necessary to underline the relevance of each of the …

The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to answer the following four questions:(RQ1)
What is the percentage of crowdfunding in the overall funding of SMEs?(RQ2) Is there a …