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From Managing Innovation to Governing Value: Reconceptualizing the Role of Intellectual Property in the Sustainable Business Model

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of intellectual property (IP) in promoting or hindering sustainable innovation now forms a topical issue in innovation management. Its role in the sustainable business model remains imperfectly understood however, creating a simplified view of IP in relation to corporate sustainable development. Hence, this study sought to examine how
Sarah van Santen
wiley   +1 more source

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

Energies, 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, Zbigniew Stempnakowski   +1 more
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Beyond Compliance: The Role of Climate Policy Stringency and Financial Institutions in Cleantech Startup Entry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan, Affan Hameed, Naimat U. Khan, Zafir Ullah Khan   +3 more
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The Interlink Between Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Ethics: A Systematic Review and Critical Reflection of the Literature

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the link between sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics. Based on a systematic literature review, the article analyzes 153 articles by adopting a content analysis approach. The article explores dominant theories, themes and key stakeholders impacted by sustainable entrepreneurship and ethics and focuses on novel ...
Melissa Demartini, Devika Kannan, Kannan Govindan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding [PDF]

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. In this paper, we investigate whether such marketing can be encouraged through incentive mechanisms, thus allowing an organisation to effectively crowdsource their marketing.
Naroditskiy, Victor, Stein, Sebastian, Tonin, Mirco, Tran-Thanh, Long, Vlassopoulos, Michael, Jennings, Nicholas R.   +5 more
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Prosumers and Sustainable Market Governance: Development of the Community‐Oriented Marketing Approach Scale

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research develops and empirically validates the Community‐Oriented Marketing Approach (COMA), a 20‐item multidimensional scale designed to measure prosumer perceptions within participatory market systems. COMA conceptualizes prosumers as active co‐value creators and institutional agents, driving sustainable market governance.
Alpaslan Kelleci, Oguzhan Essiz
wiley   +1 more source

Crowdfunding – The Case of Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Kvalita Inovácia Prosperita, 2016
Purpose: Crowdfunding as a form of alternative financing has become a widespread and successful form of financing new ideas. In this paper, we investigate crowdfunding in CEE countries, Slovakia and Czech Republic, with a strong focus on reward-based ...
Michal Šoltés, Tomáš Štofa
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Can Private Equity Deliver on Its Societal Ambitions? What We Know and Don't Know About Environmental, Social, and Governance Factor Integration in Private Equity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private equity (PE) firms increasingly integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and raise impact funds to address sustainability challenges. We review and integrate the growing body of literature on why, when, and how PE fund managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment strategies and ...
Tjarda Molenaar, Christopher Wickert, Svetlana Khapova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact Factors of Crowdfunding Intention Under Two Different Project Types: An Empirical Study From China

SAGE Open
Despite the fact that China’s crowdfunding market has grown rapidly in recent years, project financing failure remains a common occurrence. Based on perceived value and perceived risk theory, this study constructed a research model of supporters ...
Cong Shen, Xin Hao, Bing Lei
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CROWDFUNDING AND GROWTH OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA

Journal of Management and Accounting
Crowdfunding has emerged as a vital alternative financing mechanism. The increased economic activity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to crowdfunding has a ripple effect, stimulating broader growth for the sector.
Majeed Ajibola Ibrahim, Adedeji Daniel Gbadebo, Joseph Olorunfemi Akande   +2 more
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