Overview
- Presents an in-depth overview of the crowdfunding landscape in China
- Shows how WeChat crowdfunding and E-commerce crowdfunding have become game changers in informal finance
- Analyzes data gathered from the field and case studies to draw implications for institutions in China
Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Crowdfunding in China
- Institutions and crowdfunding
- The theory of financialisation
- Rotating savings and credit associations
- Informal finance in China
- Internet finance and fintech
- Fintech in China
- China’s e-payments market
- Crowdfunding platforms in China
- P2P finance in China
- Transaction costs
- Principal-agent relations
- Theory of financialisation
About this book
China is currently the front-runner on the global crowdfunding market, even though this form of financing originated in the USA. Crowdfunding in China, however, differs significantly from its counterpart in the West. This book reveals that Chinese crowdfunding is a product of the country’s dynamic internet sector, which is based on mobile internet, e-commerce, and online/mobile payments, together with significant government support. The author presents a comprehensive theoretical, empirical and field-based work on crowdfunding in China. Adopting a new institutional economics approach, it maps and deciphers the origins and paths of informal finance that have led to internet finance and the rise of crowdfunding platforms. In addition, three case studies are analyzed and their implications for crowdfunding stakeholders in China are discussed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crowdfunding in China
Book Subtitle: A New Institutional Economics Approach
Authors: Andrea S. Funk
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97253-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97252-7Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97253-4Published: 01 February 2019
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 252
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Capital Markets, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Business Finance