Crowdfunding social ventures: a model and research agenda

By Othmar Lehner. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands (2016, background): “…public involvement, support and long-lasting ties (Wheat et al., 2013), building legitimacy and exploring new communication channels with clients (Lehner, 2013), community building (Gerber et al., 2009), experimenting with novel ownership structures model (Harrison, 2013), identifying potential…”
Reward-based crowdfunding of entrepreneurial projects: the effect of local altruism and localized social capital on proponents’ success (2017, unknown): “More generally, scholars have noted that crowdfunding facilitates investment based on non-financial motives, including helping proponents and promoting their wellbeing (Lehner 2013; Ryu and Kim 2016).”
A systematic literature review of crowdfunding and sustainability: highlighting what really matters (2020, background): “In particular, sustainable entrepreneurs, who often face difficulties in receiving funds, are expected to benefit from this new phenomenon (Lehner 2013; Calic and Mosakowski 2016; Hörisch 2018).”
Choose wisely: Crowdfunding through the stages of the startup life cycle (2017, background): “These challenges are exacerbated for social ventures, which are driven by the ambiguous and sometimes dichotomous goal to achieve a double bottom line: to balance social and for-profit goals (Lehner, 2013).”
The formation and interplay of social capital in crowdfunded social ventures (2014, background): “…(where the social mission dominates the commercial) show very different entrepreneurial identification and stakeholder rewards and commitment (Lehner 2011, 2013; Trivedi and Stokols 2011) to those in predominately commercial ventures, the type of capital (debt or equity), as well as the…”
Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, background): “…while research has investigated motives driving entrepreneurs’ decision to use crowdfunding as a source of capital (Belleflamme et al. 2013; Lehner 2013), our understanding is still limited about the motives that influence lenders to fund such endeavors (André et al. 2017; Bretschneider…”
Crowdfunding for renewable and sustainable energy projects: An exploratory case study approach (2016, background): “Lehner [42] claims that crowdfunding creates a “buzz in the social media” to attract empathy from potential investors on the projects.”
Crowdfunding motivations: A focus on donors' perspectives (2019, background): “…value play in driving backers' decisions to fund new ventures and consequently contribute to the realization of the social mission of the ventures in charitable (Paschen, 2017) and reward-based crowdfunding platforms (Arena et al., 2018; Bengo et al., 2016; Lehner, 2013; Lehner and Nicholls, 2014).”
Crowdfunding: A Literature Review and Research Directions (2014, unknown): “Although we account for the scope of crowdfunding as well as for the multidisciplinary nature (Lehner, 2013) of the subject, our main focus is on the economic literature based on new ventures as the capital-seeking party.”
Impact investing: review and research agenda (2019, background): “Wesley 2010; Wood and Hagerman 2010), opportunity recognition (Lehner 2013; Leventhal 2013), and due diligence (Bakshi 2012; Reeder et al.”
Exploring entrepreneurial legitimacy in reward-based crowdfunding (2014, methodology): “The donation-based crowdfunding model is relatively well-aligned with models of social entrepreneurship (Lehner 2013).”
Social finance and crowdfunding for social enterprises: a public–private case study providing legitimacy and leverage (2014, background): “Practice and early research thus sees a tremendous, yet largely unexploited financial potential for SEs, based on the investment-power of the many, when highly legitimate investment opportunities are offered to the public in combination with regulatory governmental action (Clarkin 2014; Lehner 2013)”