TY - BOOK AU - Assadi,Djamchid ED - IGI eBooks. ED - IGI Global, TI - Strategic approaches to successful crowdfunding SN - 9781466696051 AV - HG4751 .S77 2016e U1 - 658.15/224 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Hershey, Pennsylvania (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033, USA) PB - IGI Global KW - Crowd funding KW - New business enterprises KW - Finance KW - Social networks KW - Crowdsourcing KW - Microfinance KW - Online communities KW - Peer-to-peer lending KW - Project initiators KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises KW - Social capital KW - Social web KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; In search of crowdfunding business models / Djamchid Assadi -- Intermediating crowdfunding: a foundational assessment / Joan MacLeod Heminway -- To lend or not to lend: exploring the early days of peer-to-peer lending to small businesses / Traci L. Mach, Courtney M. Carter, Cailin R. Slattery -- How do the crowdfunders judge the crowdfunded?: crowdfunding, social capital, and the gatekeepers of the financial legitimacy / Mathieu-Claude Chaboud -- Toward a typology of crowdfunding motivations / Leela Vedantam -- Proactive law as competitive advantage in crowdfunding / Jack Wroldsen -- Crowdfunding as an open innovation for co-creation / Carmen Escudero Guirado, Carmen Goytre Castro -- Basic types of project initiators: contributor relations in platform-based online crowdfunding / Javier Vidal-Garc�ia, Marta Vidal -- Exploring the spheres of crowdfunding / Bernard Owens Imarhiagbe -- Can social dynamics be channeled from offline to online communities?: commitment, compliance, and cooperation from microfinance to crowdfunding / Sharam Alijani, Djamchid Assadi, Arvind Ashta -- Does crowdfunding (creatively) disturb the conventional (banking) alliances with support networks for financing (micro-)entrepreneurs? / Nathalie Mercier [and 5 others] -- Crowdfunding: waker of small hidden insignificant funds? / Zorica Golic -- Can crowdfunding provide a solution for the financial problems of SMEs in Turkey? / Beyza Oba --; Crowdfunding and slow money: challengers or partners - a field perspective / Jung Aymeric -- Separating the wheat from the chaff: sharing vs. self-interest in crowdfunding / Marlyne Sahakian, Jean-Michel Servet -- Do the social Web 2.0 media foster democratization? / Rasoul Namazi; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print N2 - "This book brings together a collection of research-based chapters relating to the use of the social web to raise funds and provide financial support for start-up companies, individual pursuits, and philanthropic endeavors"--Provided by publisher UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-9604-4 ER -