Sustainable Crowdfunding: Value-Adding or Greenwashing?

Nuno Rosário; Nuno Melão; João Reis

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-60221-4_28

Sustainable Crowdfunding: Value-Adding or Greenwashing?

Nuno Rosário, Nuno Melão, João Reis

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Sustainable crowdfunding is becoming increasingly popular among entrepreneurs, but there is a lack of research about the economic, environmental, and social impacts of the projects financed via this source. This paper aims to examine the post-funding phase of sustainability-oriented projects and determine whether they provide the actual sustainability benefits or engage in greenwashing practices. After developing a framework to evaluate the sustainability level of crowdfunding projects, a content analysis is conducted on a sample of 50 projects financed by six European sustainability-oriented crowdfunding platforms. The results indicate that the sample projects have positive impacts on sustainability, but they rarely create value across the entire triple bottom line of economic, environmental, and social impacts. Overall, this study contributes to the literature that seeks to uncover the post-financing outcomes of sustainable projects funded by crowdfunding platforms.

Idioma original	Inglês
Título da publicação do anfitrião	WorldCIST (3)
Editores	Álvaro Rocha, Hojjat Adeli, Gintautas Dzemyda, Fernando Moreira, Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda
Editora	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Páginas	284-296
Número de páginas	13
ISBN (impresso)	9783031602207
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60221-4_28
Estado da publicação	Publicadas - 1 jan. 2024
Evento	12th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2024 - Lodz Duração: 26 mar. 2024 → 28 mar. 2024

Série de publicação

Nome	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	987 LNNS
ISSN (impresso)	2367-3370
ISSN (eletrónico)	2367-3389

Conferência

Conferência	12th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, WorldCIST 2024
País/Território	Poland
Cidade	Lodz
Período	26/03/24 → 28/03/24

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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.

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Financiadoras/-es	Número do financiador
Polytechnic of Viseu
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	UIDB/05583/2020

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