? Specifically, we examine the effects of altruism on crowdfunding outcomes in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The main result …This paper introduces a machine learning approach to quantify altruism from the linguistic style of textual documents …. We apply our method to a central question in (social) entrepreneurship: How does altruism impact entrepreneurial success …

Crowdfunding (CF) in a social entrepreneurship context is praised in narrations for its multifaceted potential - to … ventures as well as on crowdfunding. Based upon the findings, the author subsequently draws up an early scheme of CF in order …

. Equity crowdfunding is one of several types of crowdfunding, and is also known as crowdinvesting in the German-speaking realm …. This article predominantly advances the scientific knowledge regarding the success factors of equity crowdfunding for …

Crowdfunding platforms have exhibited explosive growth over the past decade. In this paper, we map out what we know … about crowdfunding, and chart directions for future work. We argue the crowdfunding literature simultaneously experiences … crowdfunding research across scholarly disciplines: keen insights sit in disciplinary silos. Scholars may be ignorant of work …

the special issue of Small Business Economics focus on crowdfunding (CF) and initial coin offerings (ICOs), which are two …

. Equity crowdfunding is one of several types of crowdfunding, and is also known as crowdinvesting in the German-speaking realm …. This article predominantly advances the scientific knowledge regarding the success factors of equity crowdfunding for …

Research background: Crowdfunding (CF) is a method of raising money for projects and enterprises by an online platform … crowdfunding. The research is dedicated to the chosen countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the period of 2005 … widely. Moreover, there is a significant impact of the age structure of the population on the crowdfunding development …

Does intellectual property positively affect the success of the equity crowdfunding campaigns? By using a unique … dataset of 191 equity crowdfunding campaigns, gathered from the Italian platforms over the period 2014-2018, we answer this … quality of equity crowdfunding campaigns. Then, following the literature on success factors for crowdfunding, we also analyze …

By analyzing a full dataset of 437 Italian equity crowdfunding campaigns over the period 2014-2020, and then by … explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian equity crowdfunding sector. In detail, we investigate whether and … via equity crowdfunding in the aftermath of the crisis. We provide evidence that the strength of the effect of our key …

recent years, equity crowdfunding platforms in particular have had extraordinarily high success rates in these published …