New financial alternatives in seeding entrepreneurship: Microfinance, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer innovations

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-26

  Bruton, Garry ^a,b   Khavul, Susanna ^c,d   Siegel, Donald ^e   Wright, Mike ^f  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 84920747088     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12143     Document Type: Article

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