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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equity crowdfunding : principles and investor behavior

open access: yes, 2020
The chapter provides a topical summary of the present research knowledge of equity crowdfunding. It describes the typical equity crowdfunding process, investor characteristics, and investor motivations.
Anna Lukkarinen, Lukkarinen, Anna
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Dynamic Spillovers Between FinTech, Blockchain, and Green Finance: A Quantile Connectedness Approach

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how financial innovation and environmental sustainability intersect by analyzing spillovers between FinTech, blockchain energy use, and green finance. Using a Quantile Vector Autoregression (QVAR) framework, we examine weekly data from 2018 to 2024 across 11 digital, environmental, and macro‐financial indices.
Mehmet Sahiner, Sisi Sung, James Devlin
wiley   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF COLLABORATION VALUE CHAIN DESIGN AT REWARD-BASED CROWDFUNDING PLATFORMS AND MUSIC INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA

open access: yesAFEBI Management and Business Review, 2019
Industry 4.0 has brought many changes, in the financial sector there is financial technology. One form of financial technology is crowdfunding. Creative industries are quite high sectors that use crowdfunding as a funding model.
Octadila Laily Anggraeni, Elvia Shauki
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Closed Loops: Advancing Climate Change Mitigation by Collaborative Open Approaches

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Even as world leaders emphasize the urgency of limiting global warming, a slow transition to a circular economy persists. While climate mitigation efforts focus on renewable energy and efficiency measures, addressing the 45% of emissions from product manufacturing remains critical.
Anna‐Kristin Behnert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When angel-backed companies turn to crowdfunding: evidence from firm characteristics and business angels’ investment practices

open access: yes, 2022
This paper sheds light on the fundraising strategies pursued over time by entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on a still largely underexplored research issue: the decision of angel-backed ventures to raise funds through a follow-on equity crowdfunding (CF)
Nicola Carta, Vincenzo Capizzi
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From Awareness to Action: Consumer Behaviour, Attitudes and Business Strategy in Sustainable and Circular Electronic Devices

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological change and the increasing use of electronic devices have made electronic waste one of the fastest‐growing waste streams worldwide, posing significant environmental and social challenges. Thus, understanding consumer behaviour regarding the purchase, use and disposal of electronic products is key to developing effective circular ...
Idiano D'Adamo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The synergistic relationship between crowdfunding and corporate social responsibility: A case study

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Islamic Finance, 2020
Crowdfunding is one of the new financing aspects that technology has added in the past decade and has grown significantly to become an alternative source of finance and assisting business projects and social & environmental initiatives.
Mohamad Kamal Kamal
doaj   +1 more source

Social Energy as the Driving Force behind Crowdfunding—Analysis and Classification of Selected Attributes

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Crowdfunding has been part of sharing economy for a few decades. Research into crowdfunding usually concerns its relation to sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, influencing investment decisions, psychological, organizational and ...
Agnieszka Szewczyk   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electronic Word-of-Mouth and the Crowdfunding Environment: A Store Environment Approach to Crowdfunding Success [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Crowdfunding has transformed the new venture financing process by expanding the possibilities for not only who can receive funding but also who can become a funder in new venture projects. Rewards-based crowdfunding platforms such as Indiegogo.com offer
Summers, Jama D.
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