How to attract the crowd in crowdfunding?

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 322-334

  Wu, Sibin ^a   Wang, Bin ^b   Li, Yuanqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^b ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Announcements; Crowdfunding; Demohour.com; Highest bid; Information asymmetry; Lowest bid; Signalling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923094180     PISSN: 14761297     EISSN: 17418054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2015.067465     Document Type: Article

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