Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands

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Crowdfunding as a tool to support sustainability‐oriented initiatives: Preliminary insights into the role of product/service attributes

“…In turn, this provides room to other considerations rooted on the loose ideology characterizing the platform, rather than to traditional mechanisms to reduce uncertainty and incentivize funding. Beyond claiming the potential of CF in the context of sustainability (Bartenberger & Leitner, 2013;Belz & Binder, 2017;Bonzanini et al, 2016;Chiang, 2015;Goodman & Polycarpou, 2013;Lam & Law, 2016;Royal & Windsor, 2014;Vasileiadou, Huijben, & Raven, 2015), some conceptual and empirical works suggest a positive relationship between SO and the likelihood of success of CF projects (e.g., Bartenberger & Leitner, 2013;Calic & Mosakowski, 2016;Hemer, 2011;Lehner, 2013). For example, Calic and Mosakowski (2016) find that both environmental and social SOs of a project positively affect its success in CF and that these relationships are partially mediated by project creativity and third-party endorsements.…”

“…Concerning theoretical contributions, literature already recognizes the importance of project-related (Calic & Mosakowski, 2016;Hörisch, 2015;Hörisch, 2018), founder-related (Bonzanini et al, 2016;Calic & Mosakowski, 2016), project finance-related (Bonzanini et al, 2016), and platform-related (Bonzanini et al, 2016;Calic & Mosakowski, 2016;Vasileiadou et al, 2015) attributes on SO campaigns' success.…”

Money, not morale: The impact of desires and beliefs on private investment in photovoltaic citizen participation initiatives

“…PV-CPIs may promote the transition to more decentralized and inclusive structures in renewable energy production (Parkhill et al, 2015;Seyfang et al, 2013;Vasileiadou et al, 2016). Such initiatives are either founded by companies, allowing participants (e.g.…”

Financing Sustainable Market Actors in Circular Economy

“…It is clear that the roots of crowdfunding itself are in cooperatives; both are collective efforts by people networking and pooling their money together for a common goal, as Internet and especially social media has given boost to crowdfunding, it also enables new forms of cooperativism. 81 When comparing pre ordering scheme and profit sharing crowdfunding schemes, the investors in the latter may or may not decide to become customers at a later stage. If they commit to being customers, we are in the matter of fact back again in a cooperative style crowdfunding.…”