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Equity Crowdfunding: Principles and Investor Behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
AbstractThe 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. Recognizing the limited due diligence efforts of the crowd despite the presence of high information asymmetries, the chapter presents the role ...
openaire   +1 more source

Morals, Markets, and Medicine

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Is Equity Crowdfunding the Leapfrog to Companies' Success? Financial Performance in China. [PDF]

open access: yesComput Intell Neurosci, 2022
Jiang C   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fostering Climate Change Education for Effective Locally‐Led and Community‐Led Adaptation

open access: yesClimate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2026.
This study highlights the transformative role of climate change education (CCE), understood here as formal, non‐formal and informal learning that equips people with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to act as agents of change for climate mitigation and adaptation in enhancing locally‐led adaptation (LLA)—where local actors shape ...
Sardar Al Imran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crowdfunding and global health disparities: an exploratory conceptual and empirical analysis

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2019
Background The use of crowdfunding platforms to cover the costs of healthcare is growing rapidly within low-, middle-, and high-income countries as a new funding modality in global health. The popularity of such “medical crowdfunding” is fueled by health
Nora J. Kenworthy
doaj   +1 more source

Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1576-1639, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Technol Transf, 2022
Cumming DJ   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Intrastate Crowdfunding in Alaska: Is There Security in Following the Crowd? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This Note analyzes the potential of crowdfunding for the State of Alaska. Crowdfunding can open up new sources of revenue for small businesses while simultaneously providing an avenue for Alaskans to invest in their own communities.
Glustrom, Evan
core   +1 more source

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