Chapter 3: The role of crowdfunding in entrepreneurial finance
Gary Dushnitsky and Diego Zunino
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Handbook Chapter
Published:
26 Jul 2019
Page Range:
46–92
Collection:
Business 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117210.00008
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The authors provide a broad overview of our knowledge on crowdfunding, particularly bridging two important issues in contemporary crowdfunding research: the ‘problem of riches’, that is, crowdfunding has been popular across scholarly disciplines and knowledge is embedded in disciplinary silos; and the ‘dearth of evidence’ in crowdfunding research, that is, although there exist thousands of platforms, most studies analyse funding patterns using data from a single platform.

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Cover Handbook of Research on Crowdfunding
Handbook of Research on Crowdfunding
Edited by Hans Landström, Annaleena Parhankangas, and Colin Mason
Handbook
Published:
26 Jul 2019
Print ISBN:
9781788117203
eISBN:
9781788117210
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117210
Pages:
c 416
Collection:
Business 2019
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