Crowdfunding in a Prosocial Microlending Environment: Examining the Role of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Cues

By Thomas H. Allison, Blakley C. Davis, Jeremy C. Short, Justin W. Webb. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, methodology): “This perspective aligns with literature in entrepreneurial financing, which suggests it is not uncommon for early venture financiers to offer funding driven by subjective criteria (Aernoudt 1999; Allison et al. 2013; Allison et al. 2015; Baty and Sommer 2002).”
Persuasion in crowdfunding: An elaboration likelihood model of crowdfunding performance (2017, background): “construction of entrepreneurial narratives during the solicitation period (Allison et al., 2015).”
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, neutral): “However, in a study of the same platform but using different text analysis dictionaries to analyze the loan descriptions, Allison, Davis, Short, and Webb (2015) find that lenders respond positively to narratives highlighting the venture as an opportunity to help others (community logics) and less…”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “, 2013), as have narratives that highlight the venture as an opportunity to help others (Allison et al., 2015), and those that emphasize autonomy, competitive aggressiveness, and risk-taking (Moss et al.”
Funders' positive affective reactions to entrepreneurs' crowdfunding pitches: The influence of perceived product creativity and entrepreneurial passion (2017, background): “Alternatively, in both rewards-based crowdfunding and donation-based crowdfunding, resource providers typically consist of laypersons with little to no formal investment experience (e.g., Allison et al., 2015; Lin et al., 2014).”
Motives and profiles of ICO investors (2019, background): “related domain of crowdfunding (e.g., Gerber & Hui, 2013; Allison et al., 2015), to the context of ICOs by showing that ICO investors are similarly motivated by intrinsic and extrinsic motives.”
The economics of crowdfunding platforms (2015, background): “While in terms of overall funding volume, crowdfunding should still be considered currently as a niche phenomenon, it is rapidly expanding in many countries and it is seen by many as a hope to fund innovative projects that would not be carried out otherwise.”