Emerging technologies and the democratisation of financial services: A metatriangulation of crowdfunding research

Crowdfunding has grown quickly and attracted significant scholarly attention. However, the diverse approaches to crowdfunding that have emerged, as well as the uncertain relationship of these approaches to the umbrella concept of crowdsourcing, means it is not clear to what extent crowdfunding presents theoretically novel behaviours, nor what those behaviours may be. This study addresses this lack of clarity through a metatriangulation of 120...