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

Business 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, Wim Van Opstal, Christina Bidmon, Saskia Manshoven, Julian Kirchherr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Spillovers Between FinTech, Blockchain, and Green Finance: A Quantile Connectedness Approach

Business 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

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

Business 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, Oliver Antons, Julia Arlinghaus   +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
doaj   +1 more source

From Awareness to Action: Consumer Behaviour, Attitudes and Business Strategy in Sustainable and Circular Electronic Devices

Business 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, Steven De Meester, Simone Di Leo, Massimo Gastaldi, Domiziana Lunadei   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to capitalize on investors by using information presentation and feedback on crowdfunding projects

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
As an innovative financing activity, online crowdfunding is characterized by extremely high information asymmetry. To reduce this information asymmetry, crowdfunding companies typically use information presentation, feedback, and other means to convey ...
Zhaoxiang Wu, Shaojun Yan, Jilin Dai
doaj   +1 more source

Human Agency Drivers for Eco‐Innovation: The Role of Environmental Entrepreneurship Orientation and Green Human Resource Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how human agency drives eco‐innovation by analyzing the mediating role of green human resource management (HRM) in the relationship between environmental entrepreneurship orientation (EEO) and eco‐innovation. By integrating resource orchestration theory with the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity (AMO) framework, the study ...
Ana Labella‐Fernández, Diego A. Vazquez‐Brust, Javier Martínez‐del‐Río, Rui Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Finance 5.0, Digital Financial Inclusion, and Carbon Footprint: Evidence From a Multi‐Country Panel Using Threshold Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of digital finance and financial inclusion on carbon emissions within a multi‐country panel framework, contributing to the emerging Finance 5.0 literature that links digital transformation with environmental sustainability.
Utku Altunöz
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +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
doaj   +1 more source