Equity retention and social network theory in equity crowdfunding

Small Business Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 579-590

  Vismara, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Entrepreneurial finance; National Systems of Entrepreneurship; Network theory; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957968660     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9710-4     Document Type: Article

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