Smarter than humans? Validating how OpenAI's ChatGPT model explains crowdfunding, alternative finance and community finance

K Wenzlaff, S Spaeth - Validating how OpenAI's ChatGPT Model …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The ChatGPT model of OpenAI allows users to ask questions, which are answered
through an artificial intelligence trained through supervised, reinforced machine-learning …

Prospects for institutionalization of crowdfunding: a developing country perspective

A Rizwan, S Naveed, F Mustafa, MS Hanif… - … and Public Policy, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study explores the adoption of crowdfunding in Pakistan, focusing on the
challenges and opportunities within its unique entrepreneurial ecosystem. The research …

[HTML][HTML] Growing pains and blessings: Manifestations and implications of equity crowdfunding industry maturation

A Lukkarinen, R Shneor, J Wallenius - Decision Support Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
The equity crowdfunding industry has grown significantly in the past decade. Industry life
cycle theory suggests that growth dynamics and relations between stakeholders change as …

[HTML][HTML] Loyal to the concept or to the platform? The complexity of the dual loyalty of crowdfunding backers

K Efrat, S Gilboa, A Wald - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2025 - Elsevier
Backer loyalty is an important, yet under-researched driver of crowdfunding success. The
concept of loyalty in crowdfunding is particularly complex because it integrates both loyalty …

A study on the social and economic sustainability of rewards-based crowdfunding in Africa

JO Onginjo, ZD Mei - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023 - Springer
Crowdfunding in Africa is unique due to the unstable but budding macro-environment that
enables offline backer contribution that fosters project success. This paper explores the …

Crowdfunding cross-border business financing practice: the evidence from the Baltic States

O Katalkina, S Saksonova - … Conference on Reliability and Statistics in …, 2021 - Springer
Crowdfunding is a method to obtain money from large audiences, where each individual
provides a small amount of funds, instead of raising large sums from a small group of …

Exploring determinants in cross-border activity in equity crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending, from a user's perspective

N Daskalakis, E Karpouzis - Small Enterprise Research, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores differences between equity crowdfunding and peer-to-peer (p2p)
lending determinants of cross-border activity, from a user's perspective. We use a unique …

Does Gender Equality Matter?–Examining Antecedents of Crowdfunding Backers' Intentions in a Gender Equal Society

P Serwaah, R Shneor - Journal of Alternative Finance, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite promises of financial democracy, studies find differences between males and
females in both the scale of their crowdfunding backing behavior and the factors impacting it …

Assessing the maturity of crowdfunding and alternative finance markets

K Wenzlaff, A Odorovic, R Kleverlaan… - Crowdfunding in the Public …, 2021 - Springer
In order to assess how public authorities and crowdfunding platforms can collabo-rate, it is
essential to understand the different levels of maturity of the Crowdfunding ecosystem. The …

From passive observer to confident leader: Taxonomies for public-private collaboration in regional and local civic crowdfunding

K Wenzlaff - Crowdfunding in the Public Sector: Theory and Best …, 2021 - Springer
The interaction of public authorities with private crowdfunding platforms is an important
building stone in creating a mature Crowdfunding ecosystem (Wenzlaff, Civic Crowdfunding …