Intention to Participate in a Crowdfunding Campaign: A Language Expectancy and Message Framing Perspective

• Main Authors: Frank RubenBloemhof, 何瑞克
• Other Authors: Tien Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5s6p4a

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 國際經營管理研究所 === 106 === Crowdfunding is a way for entrepreneurs and young startups to gather the funds required to start their businesses. This topic has been receiving more and more attention in the academic world, but a lot of questions about success factors still remain. One such lacking success factor is the use of language. In the following research, different linguistic theories are used in cooperation with each other: Language Expectancy Theory and Message Framing. In combination with several other theories, this was applied to analyze how linguistic characteristics influence people’s intention to participate in a crowdfunding campaign. This study is an experimental research. Affect intensity and lexical complexity were used as independent variables in combination with hedonic and utilitarian products. Involvement was found not be a partial mediator for either utilitarian products or for hedonic products. It was found that lexical complexity has a statistically significant effect on intention to participate for hedonic products.