Does my contribution to your crowdfunding project matter?

V Kuppuswamy, BL Bayus - Journal of business venturing, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, we consider the dynamics of crowdfunding project support over time. We
propose that people support crowdfunding projects financially when they believe that their …

Prosocial goal pursuit in crowdfunding: Evidence from kickstarter

H Dai, DJ Zhang - Journal of Marketing Research, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In reward-based crowdfunding, creators of entrepreneurial projects solicit capital from
potential consumers to reach a funding goal and offer future products/services in return. The …

Drawing goals nearer: Using the goal-gradient perspective to increase online game usage

CI Teng, WL Shiau, TCE Cheng, HY Huang - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Online games attract a huge number of players, sparking intense competition among game
developers, who must identify how they can retain players. While basic game design …

From skill growth expectancy to online game commitment

TL Huang, CN Wu, MH Chang, GY Liao… - Computers in Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Players' game commitment is relevant and important to game makers. Hence, we need to
know how to strengthen players' game commitment. The literature pointed out that two …

Charity sport event participants and fundraising: An examination of constraints and negotiation strategies

K Filo, D Fechner, Y Inoue - Sport Management Review, 2020 - Elsevier
Charity sport events provide participants with a meaningful event experience, and the
opportunity to support a charitable cause is a critical component of this experience. This …

Strengthening loyalty of online gamers: Goal gradient perspective

CI Teng - International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The growing popularity of online gaming emphasizes the importance of understanding how
loyalty among online gamers can be strengthened. The goal gradient theory has not yet …

[BOOK][B] Techniques of social influence: The psychology of gaining compliance

D Dolinski - 2015 - library.oapen.org
This accessible text provides an overview of different social influence techniques, which
people use in order to make others meet various requests, suggestions and commands …

The impact of victims' imagery on charity crowdfunding campaigns: how photos of victims doing nothing to help themselves elicit fewer donations

G Buskila, D Perez - Journal of Advertising Research, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As fundraising becomes more competitive, charitable organizations increasingly invest in
maximizing the effectiveness of their appeals. The current study shows that, all else being …

The Closing-the-Gap Effect: Joint Evaluation Leads Donors to Help Charities Farther from Their Goal

R Habib, DJ Hardisty, K White… - Journal of Marketing …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Charitable donations can be influenced by the level of progress a cause has made toward
its fundraising goal. The current work demonstrates how jointly considering more than one …

(Mis) alignment between facial and textual emotions and its effects on donors engagement behavior in online crowdsourcing platforms

E Yazdani, A Chakravarty, J Inman - Journal of the Academy of Marketing …, 2024 - Springer
Although textual and facial emotion expressions in prosocial appeals have been studied
separately in past research, there has been little work on the misalignment (compared to …