Strategic approaches to successful crowdfunding / Djamchid Assadi, editor.
Publisher: Hershey, Pennsylvania (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033, USA) : IGI Global, [2016]Description: PDFs (378 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- electronic
- online resource
- 9781466696051
- 658.15/224 23
- HG4751 .S77 2016e
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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.
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"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.
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