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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The critical role of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in driving economic growth through employment generation and innovation cannot go unseen, especially the efforts of small firms in promoting sustainable entrepreneurship. With more market and consumer focus on sustainability and the shift toward eco‐friendly products, SMEs can ...
Nasser Hadi Alajmi
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The Contribution of Limited Liability Principle and Crowdfunding Concept to Access Finance
International Journal of Public Finance, 2023 Especially in the early 19th century, states have been in search of finding finance for large projects such as dams, bridges and road construction that they could not finance on their own.
Temel Güner
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Where Tech Meets the SDGs: A Supply‐Chain Process Map for Sustainability Management
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how advanced technologies support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within supply chain management (SCM) through a structured analysis of 4448 sustainable practices. By integrating perspectives from sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) and contingent dynamic capabilities, the research conceptualizes technology ...
Vincenzo Varriale +2 more
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Sharia fintech: Crowdfunding as MSMEs financing
Al-MuamalatFintech equity crowdfunding has arrived in Indonesia, expanding options for entrepreneurs to raise capital. Indonesia's predominantly Muslim population increases the potential demand for access to Shariah-based capital as well as the potential for ...
Hilma Rohmatul Ummah +2 more
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Friend or Foe? Crowdfunding Versus Credit when Banks are Stressed [PDF]
, 2015 Does bank instability push borrowers to use crowdfunding as a source of external finance? We identify stressed banks and link them to a unique, manually constructed sample of 157 new ventures seeking equity crowdfunding.
Blaseg, Daniel, Koetter, Michael
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Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding [PDF]
, 2013 It is not surprising that the financing of early-stage creative projects and ventures is typically geographically localized since these types of funding decisions are usually predicated on personal relationships and due diligence requiring face-to-face ...
Agrawal, Ajay K +2 more
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Signaling in Equity Crowdfunding
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper presents an initial empirical examination of which start-up signals will induce small investors to commit financial resources in an equity crowdfunding context. We examine the impact of firms’ financial roadmaps (e.g., preplanned exit strategies such as IPOs or acquisitions), external certification (awards, government grants and patents ...
Gerrit K.C. Ahlers +3 more
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International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a fundamental tenet of socialism with Chinese characteristics, pursuing common prosperity for all entails reducing urban‐rural disparities while simultaneously increasing rural household income. This study utilizes interview and survey data from the “Chinese Thousand Villages Survey” conducted by the Shanghai University of Finance and ...
Qingen Gai +3 more
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Intrastate Crowdfunding in Alaska: Is There Security in Following the Crowd? [PDF]
, 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
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Radical Uncertainty and New Sector Emergence: An Action Theory of Co‐Creative Stakeholders
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For much of the past century, entrepreneurship scholars have sought to understand and assess the nature, role, and impact of uncertainty. While the sum total of this work has contributed valuable insights, radical uncertainty—characterized by dynamic conditions in which outcomes are unknowable at the time action must be taken—remains weakly ...
Parul Manocha +1 more
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