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Does crowdfunding contribute to digital financial inclusion?
This study extensively examines crowdfunding to promote and enhance digital financial inclusion. The goal of this research is to investigate the role of crowdfunding in digital financial inclusion and to establish a standardized measure for comparing the
Md. Abdul Halim
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Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurship accelerators are increasingly promoted as structural interventions to close gender gaps, yet studies have not established a differential impact of participation for women. This prior evidence—drawn from high‐tech, male‐dominated settings—may overlook how outcomes differ in more feminized domains such as social
Nilanjana Dutt, Sarah Kaplan
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Tales of Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence: Diverging Stakeholderships?
ABSTRACT This article traces the evolution of the Internet from the 1990s to the 2020s and compares it with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly following the public launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. It identifies both parallels and divergencies between these two overlapping technological domains, focusing on the growing ...
Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello
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This study explores how competition and macroeconomic factors affect the success of equity-based crowdfunding campaigns (ECF). Using a dataset of 247 campaigns from multiple platforms in Poland, we use logistic, Tobit and fixed-effects panel regressions ...
Artur A. Trzebiński, Kamil Gemra
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ABSTRACT Secondary‐market data on 1189 crowdfunding campaigns, extracted from the leading UK equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, is used to identify the determinants of amount invested. A key feature of the dataset is that only successful campaigns are observed.
Xuerui Ma +2 more
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Technological developments greatly make it easy for users, including in matters of financial technology (FinTech), which has also led to the innovation of Equity Crowdfunding (ECF).
Syarifah Zahra Al Haddar +1 more
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Compassionate Digital Innovation: A Pluralistic Perspective and Research Agenda
ABSTRACT Digital innovation offers significant societal, economic and environmental benefits but is also a source of profound harms. Prior information systems (IS) research has often overlooked the ethical tensions involved, framing harms as ‘unintended consequences’ rather than symptoms of deeper systemic problems.
Raffaele F. Ciriello +5 more
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Inscribing Impact: Measurement Practices in the Making of Moral Markets
Abstract Moral markets, designed to generate positive impact on pressing social and environmental challenges, are transforming traditional market practices by including more than economic considerations in their operations. The importance of these markets continues to grow as investors, regulators, and consumers increasingly put pressure on companies ...
Guillermo Casasnovas +2 more
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Abstract We use role congruity theory to examine how differing role expectations surrounding entrepreneur gender and race shape the influence of social responsibility rhetoric used in crowdfunding pitches. To do so, we develop a novel content‐analytic measure of social responsibility rhetoric using the Kinder, Lydenberg, and Domini (KLD) dimensions of ...
Aaron H. Anglin +4 more
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How Do Businesses Finance New Investment?
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how UK firms finance new investment and whether their choices follow a financing hierarchy consistent with leading theories of capital structure. Using a survey of 2886 firms conducted by the UK Department for Business and Trade and the Bank of England (2020–2023), we examine six financing sources: retained earnings ...
Marc Cowling +3 more
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