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Making The Case For Global Outsourcing: Cases Of Business Complexities And Success, Alan D. Smith, Sara Krivacek
Making The Case For Global Outsourcing: Cases Of Business Complexities And Success, Alan D. Smith, Sara Krivacek
Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings
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Lean Principles And Optimizing Flow: Case Studies, Alan D. Smith, Dean R. Manna
Lean Principles And Optimizing Flow: Case Studies, Alan D. Smith, Dean R. Manna
Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings
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Electronic Intervention And Platforms And Their Impacts On Crowdfunding Behavior, Susan Cockrell, Dan Meyer, Alan D. Smith
Electronic Intervention And Platforms And Their Impacts On Crowdfunding Behavior, Susan Cockrell, Dan Meyer, Alan D. Smith
Atlantic Marketing Association Proceedings
Crowdfunding is a method of raising funds for projects, creative pursuits, peer-to-peer lending, and charitable causes. The idea of crowdfunding stems from the more encompassing concept of crowdsourcing, which refers not only to the gathering of funds, but to group participation in the convergence of ideas and content creation. Thus, crowdfunding can be considered to be one type of crowdsourcing. The following study examines the crowdfunding behavior of a sample of business professionals located in the service sector of metropolitan Pittsburgh, PA. In general, the empirical findings suggested that smaller goals tend to have better success ratios, while getting the …