Internal Social Capital and the Attraction of Early Contributions in Crowdfunding

By Massimo G. Colombo, Chiara Franzoni, C. Rossi‐Lamastra. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Marketing

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Research on Crowdfunding: Reviewing the (Very Recent) past and Celebrating the Present (2017, neutral): “Demonstrating how crowdfunding research can draw from traditional research streams germane to management and entrepreneurship, Colombo, Franzoni, and Rossi-Lamastra (2015) examine the positive impacts of internal social capital on campaign success using the Kickstarter platform, finding the…”
Strategies for reward-based crowdfunding campaigns (2016, background): “This supports the research done by Colombo et al. (2015).”
Persuasion in crowdfunding: An elaboration likelihood model of crowdfunding performance (2017, background): “In general, this work has sought to identify similarities with traditional investment processes and drawn upon existing theories such as signaling (Courtney et al., 2017), social capital (Colombo et al., 2015), and legitimacy perspectives (Fisher et al., 2017).”
Reward crowdfunding contribution as planned behaviour: An extended framework (2019, methodology): “The TPB has been widely used to examine the adoption of other Internet-based services and Internet-mediated marketplaces by prospective users in many contexts: participation in online communities (Casaló, Flavián, & Guinalíu, 2010), acceptance of e-services (M.-H. Hsu & Chiu, 2004), adoption of e-co”
Information Cascades among Investors in Equity Crowdfunding (2015, neutral): “While in equity crowdfunding the proponent is by definition a company, reward-based campaigns are launched mostly by individuals (see, e.g., Colombo et al., 2015).”
Crowdfunding: Motives, Definitions, Typology and Ethical Challenges (2016, background): “Therefore, the early backers are seen as a sort of quality signal (Belleﬂamme, Omrani, and Peitz 2015; Colombo et al. 2015; Kromidha and Robson 2016; Mollick 2014).”
Gender differences in the contribution patterns of equity-crowdfunding investors (2017, neutral): “Finally,wecontribute to thenascent literature on crowdfunding (Belleflamme et al. 2014; Mollick 2014; Colombo et al. 2015; Agrawal et al. 2015; Ahlers et al. 2015; Hornuf and Schwienbacher 2015a).”
From the crowd to the market: The role of reward-based crowdfunding performance in attracting professional investors (2017, methodology): “Indeed, prior research has suggested that interacting frequently with the community and providing updates about the project are crucial to ultimately stimulate funding in reward-based crowdfunding platforms (Dushnitsky and Marom, 2013; Hui et al., 2014; Mollick, 2014; Colombo et al., 2015).”
The wisdom of the crowd in funding: information heterogeneity and social networks of crowdfunders (2018, background): “Whereas much of the literature is focused on success factors driving the crowdfunding campaign, such as the role of early contributions, we focus on the information used by crowdfunder s (Ag awal et al. 2015; Cholakova and Clarysse 2015; Colombo et al. 2015).”
The influence of online information on investing decisions of reward-based crowdfunding (2017, background): “…decisions, as well as individual quality signals like personal characteristics, creditworthiness, and social networks (Mollick, 2013, 2014; Colombo, Franzoni, and Rossi-Lamastra, 2013; Younkin and Kashkooli, 2013; Zvilichovsky, Inbar, and Barzilay, 2013; Burtch, Ghose, and Wattal, 2013).”
Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success (2017, methodology): “These values are similar to those highlighted by previous studies (Colombo et al., 2015; Mollick, 2013).”