A rapidly expanding body of entrepreneurship literature draws on signaling theory. Yet as
the field grows, common understanding of the theory's underlying constructs has become …

Purpose This contribution aims to evaluate key theoretical bases that were used in previous
research, to investigate the use of crowdfunding platforms by small businesses and startups …

The persistence of grand societal and environmental challenges demands attention from
innovation management scholars and practitioners to find effective resolutions. Grand …

Fraud in the reward-based crowdfunding market has been of concern to regulators, but it is
arguably of greater importance to the nascent industry itself. Despite its significance for …

Due to the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurs and small
businesses have had multiple difficulties accessing conventional types of financing …

The study provides the current overview of P2P lending in Bahrain especially for the small
and medium enterprises (SME) sector and proposes a machine learning-based Islamic …

The amount of crowdfunding research that investigates funding success factors has been
increasing. The existing research shows inconsistent evidence regarding how a prosocial …

Purpose This paper aims at explaining variances in the contribution of Islamic crowdfunding
platforms (ICFPs) to sustainable development (SD), by adopting an institutional logic …

Prosocial crowdfunding was originally conceived as a financial mechanism to assist
vulnerable unbanked populations, typically excluded from formal financial markets. It …

Despite the relevance of crowdfunding as a financing tool for underrepresented
entrepreneurs, prior research pays scant attention to the funding gap for refugee …