While information technology has been advancing rapidly during the past years, the dawn of the information age has not only elevated the importance of privacy in theory and practice but also raised concerns about how to protect a users’ private information. Within the information systems...

Purpose: Decentralized, blockchain-based equity crowdfunding has potential to close the equity-funding gap faced by startups. The present paper investigates the driving forces of equity crowdfunding and the impact of the blockchain.Design: In a two-round, expert-based Delphi survey, ten...