The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation

Abstract Competition between formal and informal companies has been increasingly studied. However, there is a lack of studies in the collaboration between formal and informal companies generated using crowdfunding platforms. Based on the signaling theory and using the loans from 2019 of the Kiva cro...

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Autores principales: Heredia,Jorge, Geldes,Cristian, Flores,Alejandro, Heredia,Walter
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2020
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420200004000542021-02-02The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital TransformationHeredia,JorgeGeldes,CristianFlores,AlejandroHeredia,Walter Digital transformation a crowdfunding platform partner collaborate profit social finance signal signaling theory information asymmetry Abstract Competition between formal and informal companies has been increasingly studied. However, there is a lack of studies in the collaboration between formal and informal companies generated using crowdfunding platforms. Based on the signaling theory and using the loans from 2019 of the Kiva crowdfunding platform. The drivers and enablers of the collaboration between formally registered firms (partners micro finances) and informal firms (unregistered firms - borrowers) in the context of the crowdfunding digital platform are studied. The results state a negative relationship between the lender's propensity to make loans and the informal firm's percentage borrowed. However, if the borrower receives a trustworthy partner (micro-finance), the borrower's negative impact decreases. Moreover, the lender's propensity to make loans lesser in projects of the tertiary sector. The study contributes to the entrepreneurship theory to understand the mechanism to legitimization the informal firm through collaboration with formal firms in the digital platforms.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.15 n.4 20202020-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242020000400054en10.4067/S0718-27242020000400054
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topic Digital transformation
a crowdfunding platform
partner
collaborate
profit
social finance
signal
signaling theory
information asymmetry
spellingShingle Digital transformation
a crowdfunding platform
partner
collaborate
profit
social finance
signal
signaling theory
information asymmetry
Heredia,Jorge
Geldes,Cristian
Flores,Alejandro
Heredia,Walter
The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation
description Abstract Competition between formal and informal companies has been increasingly studied. However, there is a lack of studies in the collaboration between formal and informal companies generated using crowdfunding platforms. Based on the signaling theory and using the loans from 2019 of the Kiva crowdfunding platform. The drivers and enablers of the collaboration between formally registered firms (partners micro finances) and informal firms (unregistered firms - borrowers) in the context of the crowdfunding digital platform are studied. The results state a negative relationship between the lender's propensity to make loans and the informal firm's percentage borrowed. However, if the borrower receives a trustworthy partner (micro-finance), the borrower's negative impact decreases. Moreover, the lender's propensity to make loans lesser in projects of the tertiary sector. The study contributes to the entrepreneurship theory to understand the mechanism to legitimization the informal firm through collaboration with formal firms in the digital platforms.
author Heredia,Jorge
Geldes,Cristian
Flores,Alejandro
Heredia,Walter
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Geldes,Cristian
Flores,Alejandro
Heredia,Walter
author_sort Heredia,Jorge
title The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation
title_short The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation
title_full The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation
title_fullStr The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation
title_full_unstemmed The New Strategy to The Legitimation of Informal Firms. The Effects of The Signals and Biases on Decisions About Crowdfunding Digital Transformation
title_sort new strategy to the legitimation of informal firms. the effects of the signals and biases on decisions about crowdfunding digital transformation
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
publishDate 2020
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242020000400054
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