Self-determination and Minority Rights in China

Self-determination theory and individuals’ intention to participate in donation crowdfunding

“…Additionally, the portal is seeking to offer incentives to charitable funders to help address the nation’s worsening social issues. A lot of research has been done on equity-based, as well as on loan-based and reward-based donation-based crowdfunding, but there has not been much effort to find out how motivation factors impact on potential participants (Rodriguez-Ricardo et al , 2018; Wang et al , 2019). Thus, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate what motivates public participation in donation-based crowdfunding in most of Oman.…”

“…It can serve a wide variety of projects such as new business ventures, eliminating social issues, controlling medical crises, creating new products, etc. (Wang et al , 2019). The SESRIC published a report indicated that Islamic crowdfunding and blockchain technology becoming the mainstream for the Muslim world to trade, especially involving the small-medium enterprises (SESRIC, 2019).…”

“…The Times of Oman (2018) indicated that the leading charity “Dar Al Atta’a” that has been long established in the official online portal asserted that many donation crowdfunding projects have unfortunately failed to reach their financial aims within the limited time frame. A crowdfunding project to succeed, it depends solely on potential funders’ intention to contribute to it (Wang et al , 2019). This indicates that the low success rate of donation crowdfunding projects in Oman stems from individuals’ low donation intention (DI) towards crowdfunding projects.…”

“…Crowdfunding has succeeded to attain a surge of interest from the literature (Kaartemo, 2017). Past studies show that researchers have been focused more on equity-based, reward-based and loan-based crowdfunding and leaving a gap in the literature regarding donation crowdfunding (Kaartemo, 2017; Kawamura and Kusumi, 2018; Rodriguez-Ricardo et al , 2018; Wang et al , 2019). Consequently, this study contributes to the literature on donation crowdfunding by investigating the drivers of individuals’ intention to donate crowdfunding projects.…”

“…Consequently, this study contributes to the literature on donation crowdfunding by investigating the drivers of individuals’ intention to donate crowdfunding projects. Previous studies have used self-determination theory (SDT) to describe an individual’s intention towards crowdfunding projects (Ryu et al , 2016; Wang, 2018; Wang et al , 2019) and displayed its relevance in explaining the motivators influencing individuals’ intention in the crowdfunding context. Hence, the current study used the SDT as the theoretical model to determine the potential drivers of DI to crowdfunding projects.…”