Purpose This empirical study uses herd behavior model to explore the role of anchor investors in ensuring fundraising success and overfunding of crowdfunded ventures. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is applied to find the configurational patterns describing how...

A country's institutional framework plays a crucial role in promoting entrepreneurship, which drives economic growth. Encouraging a minimum level of certainty in ambiguous environments characterized by risk taking is important. Aware of this importance, we analyze the influence of institutional...

A country's institutional framework plays a crucial role in promoting entrepreneurship, which drives economic growth. Encouraging a minimum level of certainty in ambiguous environments characterized by risk taking is important. Aware of this importance, we analyze the influence of institutional...

Chapter 1. A Journey Through Entrepreneurial Fundraising -- Chapter 2. The Role of Incubators and Accelerators in Entrepreneurial Fundraising -- Chapter 3. Crowd-based Financing Tools for Entrepreneurs: A Guide for Effective Crowdfunding -- Chapter 4. Factoring, Leasing and Confirming for...

This study employs analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to develop a methodology that allows researchers to select factors for new measures in value co-creation analysis. AHP shows that successful factors for co-creation relate to the sequential stages of the relationship between hotels and disabled...

Lack of trust, lack of references and the confidential nature of cybersecurity projects make internationalization in companies from the cybersecurity sector a great challenge. The development of lean methodologies over recent years has presented a method to reduce time and effort, measure...