The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly severe and noticeable. Consumers are becoming more cognizant of the environmental challenges that affect the planet. A major contributor to carbon emissions and the resulting warming climate and pollution is transportation. As a result, the selection of environmentally friendly options in this industry is becoming a pressing matter. This study aims to exam...
Recent literature has addressed initial coin offering (ICO) projects, which are an innovative form of venture financing through cryptocurrencies using blockchain technology. Many features of ICOs remain unexplored, leaving much room for additional research, including the success factors of ICO projects. We investigate the success of ICO projects, with our main purpose being to identify factors that influence a ...
In an increasingly competitive environment subject to uncontrollable risks, the continuity of organizations can be severely threatened, and the decision-making process takes place under circumstances of great uncertainty. Therefore, it is necessary to develop strategies and competencies that allow the business to thrive. Startups, particularly technology-based ones, are an essential source of innovation. Howeve...
The Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) concept has been an emerging topic in the literature as well as their success factors. We will build up on the current literature and explore several success factors divided into categories, namely, project, campaign, social network and team’s characteristics. The preliminary econometric model developed was built on data from a database composed of 428 ICO projects in the banki...
The Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) subject has been gaining relevance due to its novelty, due to the capital amounts involved in the projects, as well as the disruptive technology and methods involved. ICOs are a disruptive way to finance new projects which involve high risks and which are mainly technological. This way to finance a project has been compared to others, namely, crowdfunding, venture capital or In...
As Inital Coin Offerings (ICOs) ou em português, Ofertas Iniciais de Moedas, têm ganho relevância pela sua novidade, pelos valores de capital envolvidos nos projetos, bem como pela tecnologia e métodos disruptivos utilizados. As ICOs são uma forma disruptiva de financiar novos projetos de risco e altamente tecnológicos. Esta forma de financiamento de um projeto foi comparada com outras, nomeadamente, crowdfundi...
The Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are an emerging topic in the literature with several gaps still to fulfill. The ICOs have increased its importance not only due to the interest they have been raising but also due to the capital amounts involved in the projects, the innovative solutions they offer and the challenges they pose to regulators. There is some research on the ICOs' success factors but there is still ...
The Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are an emerging topic in the literature with several gaps still to fulfill. The ICOs have increased its importance not only due to the interest they have been raising but also due to the capital amounts involved in the projects, the innovative solutions they offer and the challenges they pose to regulators. There is some research on the ICOs' success factors but there is still ...