Entrepreneurs often struggle to find sufficient funding for their start-ups. A relatively new way for companies to attract capital is via an internet platform, locating investors who in return receive something in return for their ventures. Equity crowdfunding is one of several types of...

Crowdfunding represents an alternative way of funding entrepreneurial ventures - and is attracting a high amount of interest in research as well as practice. Against this background, this paper analyzes reward-based crowdfunding campaign strategies and their communication tools. To do this, 446...

By analysing public infrastructure projects in Germany, especially those concerning stakeholder engagement, we observed ‘learning from external stakeholders’ took place. Projects and stakeholders appeared to benefit from this learning (e.g. by identifying project-relevant information,...