A rapidly expanding body of entrepreneurship literature draws on signaling theory. Yet as
the field grows, common understanding of the theory's underlying constructs has become …

Purpose Crowdfunding (CF) has become an increasingly popular means of financing for
entrepreneurs and has attracted significant attention from both researchers and practitioners …

Equity crowdfunding has the potential to democratize entrepreneurial finance and provide
female entrepreneurs with new and equal access to early-stage financing. In this paper, we …

Due to the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurs and small
businesses have had multiple difficulties accessing conventional types of financing …

Traditional intermediaries have the ability and the incentive to intertemporarily smooth
outcomes. Fintechs, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms and equity crowdfunding …

In equity crowdfunding, firms raise capital online from a large pool of heterogeneous
investors, thereby providing primary market opportunities similar to traditional public …

Schumpeterian entrepreneurs are considered agents of innovation and technology transfer.
However, to fulfill this role, they need entrepreneurial finance. From the perspective of digital …

This paper investigates strategic entrepreneurial choice between the UK Big 3 platforms–
Crowdcube, Seedrs and SyndicateRoom–that exemplify the three main equity crowdfunding …

This study seeks to produce empirical evidence by investigating the impact of institutional
ownership (IO) and company value (CV) on financial statement integrity and the moderating …

Finance studies on the impact of market timing (or “windows of opportunity”) have almost
exclusively focused on publicly traded firms and initial public offering firms. We provide first …