Please consider this call for papers for an upcoming special issue on Crowdfunding Awareness, Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior.
Following two decades of crowdfunding industry development and growth, the time is right to both take stock of existing insights as well as explore new directions towards better understanding of crowdfunding awareness, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. These investigations should be considered with respect to multiple stakeholders engaged in different types of decisions, which are made within different contextual settings.
Thus far, studies reflected sentiments in earlier days of crowdfunding operations and maintained a clear focus on intentions and behavior. However, the drivers and consequences of earlier stages of the process of crowdfunding, such as awareness and attitudes, now require greater attention. In particular, those drivers related to intentions and behaviors also need to be revisited and reflected upon. Such explorations may employ or develop novel theoretical insights drawn from a range of backgrounds, including psychology, marketing, information systems, economics, entrepreneurship, and finance.
The special issue invites papers that contribute to this body of research.
We welcome a plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches. Submissions may engage in relevant literature reviews, conceptual development, theory development and/or testing. They may follow qualitative, quantitative, or mixed empirical designs. Furthermore, they may relate to well-established theories or seek to consider alternative ones.
The special issue is guest edited by Prof. Rotem Shneor (University of Agder) and Prof. Joe Cox (University of Portsmouth).
For full information see attached, or here: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/alf/callforpapers?pbEditor=true
Deadline: 30th of January 2026
Author Guidelines: https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/ALF
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