Although firms increasingly publish sustainability reports, assuring such reports is relatively
new. This study reviews the literature of sustainability assurance to evaluate the intellectual …

The fields of venture capital and private equity are rooted in financing research on capital
budgeting and initial public offering (IPO). Both fields have grown considerably in recent …

Following the operational paradigms proposed by Industry 4.0, the last years have been
characterized by the rapid growth of technology-based firms increasingly adopting …

Entrepreneurial finance markets are in a dynamic state. New market niches and players
have developed and continue to emerge. The rules of the game and the methods for …

Nowadays equity crowdfunding plays an important role in the entrepreneurial finance
markets. To better understand the functioning of the industry, it is important to consider the …

This paper investigates whether gender, age, ethnicity, and geography affect the choice of
equity crowdfunding offerings vs initial public offerings (IPO) on traditional stock markets and …

This article systematically reviews literature at the intersection of crowdfunding and
sustainability. It analyzes the extent to which the current research foci in crowdfunding and …

This paper examines for the first time dual-class equity crowdfunding as a digital ownership
model. Unique to this context, companies can set an investment threshold under which no …

Research on initial coin offerings (ICOs) is nascent and assesses ICOs from the
perspectives of ventures and regulators. Little is known about the equally important group of …

Compared with traditional charities, donation-based crowdfunding has many novel
characteristics. Among the variety of factors that influence potential donors before they …