This research explored the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) owner-managers' attitudes toward digital media and stakeholder engagement. Its research methodology integrated measures from the technological acceptance model, the pace of technological innovation and corporate social...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a rapidly growing phenomenon wherein entrepreneurial ventures raise funds for the development of blockchain-based businesses. They have recently sprouted up all over the world, raising millions of dollars for early-stage projects. Few empirical studies are...

How should crowdfunding platforms alleviate information asymmetry between creators and crowdfunders? In traditional financial markets, public companies are required to disclose potential risks to their investors, and such risk disclosure requirements are enforced by legal and fiduciary...

Twitter allows users to publicly share their opinions on certain products in the form of micro-blogs. Such data can be collected and classified to help crowdfunding campaign owners to infer user needs, detect problems with their product and services and plan for future releases of their offers....

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has emerged as a new paradigm for managing the portfolio of risks that face organizations and delivers synergic value by exploiting natural hedges. Proponents of ERM claim that ERM is designed to enhance the shareholder value (SHV). Increasing numbers of...

Some issues of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 are still discussed controversially in literature. Thereof, Section 404 concerning internal control over financial reporting is one of the most criticized parts. This article focuses on costs and benefits of the section and impacts on earnings...

Research into Crowdfunding (CF) rarely uses a holistic view on the positioning of relevant actors and their activities. We are looking at how crowdfunding platforms (CFP) as focal actors exert influence to create and delineate the field and apply an ecosystem perspective by studying structure...

The European Commission has released a new directive concerning sustainability reporting that must be implemented in thousands of companies by 2017. Many companies already report on sustainability. Thus, the question emerges whether companies already fulfil the requirements for reasons of...

Research on social entrepreneurship has taken an increasing interest in issues pertaining to ideology. In contrast to existing research which tends to couch ‘ideology' in pejorative terms (i.e. something which needs to be overcome), this paper conceives ideology as a key mechanism for...

Mergers & acquisitions (M&As) are important strategic instruments, yet nearly half of all transactions fail, often resulting in disastrous write-offs and losses for corporations and financing institutions alike - despite promising prospects upfront. Applied research has been trying to find a...