Defining Supporter Crowdfunding

However, crowdfunding is a young emerging research area and has no common definition so far (Moritz & Block, 2016). The research on crowdfunding, its context and scope vary significantly and many different definitions have emerged (Hossain & Oparaocha, 2017). Hence, this chapter provides an overview of various crowdfunding definitions from the literature. For this purpose, eight questions are applied to each definition. This examination leads to a context-specific crowdfunding definition made by the author, which will be operationalised in this study.