Research on Crowdfunding: Reviewing the (Very Recent) Past and Celebrating the Present

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 149-160

  Short, Jeremy C ^a   Ketchen, David J ^b   McKenny, Aaron F ^c   Allison, Thomas H ^d   Ireland, R Duane ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85012917683     PISSN: 10422587     EISSN: 15406520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/etap.12270     Document Type: Editorial

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