Social media opinion leaders and information diffusion of crowdfunding projects: Evidence from China

L Zhao, Z Sun, S Chen, R Gugnani, N Sahore - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Opinion leaders play essential roles in online social media and are the key to analyzing the
process of information diffusion. While the crowdfunding market has exhibited rapid growth …

[HTML][HTML] The success of cancer crowdfunding campaigns: project and text analysis

X Zhang, X Tao, B Ji, R Wang, S Sörensen - Journal of Medical Internet …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background Recent studies have analyzed the factors that contribute to variations in the
success of crowdfunding campaigns for a specific cancer type; however, little is known about …

What motivates firms to adopt a green supply chain and how much does it matter?

M Wang, G Zhang - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study integrates the elaboration likelihood model, institutional theory, and the image
management perspective to identify the internal and external forces that can effectively drive …

Exploring the endorsement effect on scientific crowdfunding performance: Evidence from Experiment. com

Z Liu, YC Zhao, S Song, Z Ba, Q Zhu - Telematics and Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, endorsers have been involved in many scientific crowdfunding campaigns to
improve project progress. While the effectiveness of endorsement has been frequently …

In help-seekers' shoes: First-person pronouns entitled charitable fundraising campaigns and individual donating behavior in China

Y Gao, Y Cai - Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Both first-person and third-person pronouns are widely used in charitable fundraising
campaigns, but which type of pronouns is more effective in soliciting donations is still to be …

Signaling theory in charity-based crowdfunding: Investigating the effects of project creator characteristics and text linguistic style on fundraising performance

Y Zhai, W Shen - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
This research investigates the influence of project creator characteristics and text linguistic
style on the effectiveness of fundraising campaigns within the realm of environmental …

New model of utility analysis and performance prediction in crowdfunding: A perspective of behavior-related decision

J Wei, Z Wang, Q Du, W Fan - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
A new model of utility analysis and performance prediction in crowdfunding is proposed in
this paper with considering backer's behavior-related decision. To establish a connection …

Monetizing entrepreneur response to crowdfunding with text analytics

W Wang, Y Xu, YJ Wu, M Goh - Information Processing & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the role of response in crowdfunding to guide fundraisers to monetize
their responses better. In all, 6,405 commenters on a large crowdfunding platform in China …

Certified by social networks: the role of social certifications in medical crowdfunding

W Hao, X Li, F Zhang - Electronic Commerce Research, 2023 - Springer
Nowadays, medical crowdfunding platforms are faced with two challenges: the
trustworthiness issue caused by inauthentic information provided by fundraisers and the …

Predicting the fundraising performance of environmental crowdfunding projects: An interpretable machine learning approach

Z Liu, S Hu - Information Processing & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Crowdfunding has become a pivotal fundraising method for environmental organizations.
However, the fundraising performance of environmental crowdfunding projects remains …