Financing agri-food business in the Mediterranean area through crowdfunding: Do environmental issues matter?

Ljumović, Isidora and Pavlović, Vladan and Knežević, Goranka (2021) Financing agri-food business in the Mediterranean area through crowdfunding: Do environmental issues matter? New Medit (3). pp. 101-117. ISSN 1594-5685

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Abstract

Global expectations are that crowdfunding will be able to unleash the great potential for contributing to sustainable development by providing financial resources for environmentally and socially oriented ventures. The purpose of this paper is to estimate which factors, including the orientation to sustainability, foster the likelihood of crowdfunding success in agri-food campaigns. Using a sample of crowdfunding campaigns launched in the Kickstarter platform, this paper employs a binary logistic regression model to investigate factors that motivate investment decisions. The results demonstrate that the campaigns that are rated as sustainable show a positive, statistically relevant relation to the success. In addition, improving the quality and complexity of the project, together with the realistic setting of goal increase the odds of success. In the era of innovative finance, this paper contributes to the growing literature and initiatives to promote and develop crowdfunding in the agri-food industry.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: COBISS.ID=52637193
Uncontrolled Keywords: agri-food crowdfunding, sustainable, financial innovation, success factors, Mediterranean
Research Department: Digital Economics
Sustainable Development
Innovation Economics
Depositing User: Jelena Banovic
Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2022 21:53
Last Modified: 09 Jan 2022 21:53
URI: http://ebooks.ien.bg.ac.rs/id/eprint/1709

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