This paper provides a description of the crowdfunding sector, considering investment- based crowdfunding platforms as … on cross-group and within-group external effects and asymmetric information on crowdfunding platforms …

Third-party platforms, intermediaries in the financing proposition offered by crowdfunding, assume various risks in …

On online crowdfunding platforms, three stakeholder groups, i.e., platform operators, project founders, and funders …. Especially in reward-based crowdfunding, massive overfunding can lead to severe problems for project founders when vast amounts … demand-oriented distribution of funding. Our findings extend the understanding of funding processes on crowdfunding platforms …

Crowdfunding platforms offer promising opportunities for project founders to publish their project ideas and to collect … reciprocity, we extend previous research in the field of crowdfunding success factors. We provide a comprehensive view on factors … influencing crowdfunding success by both focusing on project-specific as well as founder-specific aspects. Analyzing a sample of …

online crowdfunding – the use of a provision point. Under a provision point mechanism (otherwise known as all-or-nothing or … fixed fundraising scheme), the fundraiser, typically an entrepreneur, only receives funds pledged toward his or her campaign … if a pre-registered fundraising target is met, rather than keeping everything that is raised. On the one hand, provision …

Over the past decade, researchers have paid attention to crowdfunding as a promising way to foster entrepreneurship and … innovation. In this paper, we set out the state of the crowdfunding phenomenon in Africa, with a particular focus on sub … active, non-African-based platforms are able to collect more funds for projects in Africa.We use the crowdfunding platform …