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Die Bedeutung Sozialer Medien für das Reward based Crowdfunding

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  • Katrin Kizilkan
  • Reinhard Schulte

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Ein Crowdsale in Form des auf entsprechende Internetplattformen gestützten Reward based Crowdfunding kann jungen Unternehmen und KMU in verschiedener Hinsicht nützlich sein. Es eröffnet nicht nur zusätzliche Finanzierungsoptionen, sondern dient auch der Risikominderung, der Produktentwicklung, der Marktforschung, der Zielgruppenkommunikation und nicht zuletzt auch dem Vertrieb. -- Als kritisch für den Erfolg einer Reward based Crowdfunding-Kampagne muss die zielgerichtete und sachgerechte Nutzung von Social Media vor und während der Kampagne angesehen werden. Gestützt auf zwei gängige theoretische Erklärungsstränge, nämlich den informationsökonomischen Ansatz (Signaling Theorie) und den ressourcenbasierten Ansatz (Social Capital Theorie), stellt der Beitrag Funktionsweise und Hintergründe des Crowdsale vor und erläutert die Relevanz Sozialer Medien für den Erfolg solcher Projekte. Der Artikel zeigt, wie durch Verringerung der Informationsasymmetrien zwischen Backer und Starter sowie durch Aktivierung des Social Media-Netzwerks die Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit von Kampagnen maßgeblich gesteigert werden kann. / A crowdsale in the form of reward-based crowdfunding supported by corresponding internet platforms can be useful to young companies and SMEs in various ways. It not only opens up additional financing options, but also serves risk reduction, product development, market research, target group communication and, last but not least, sales. -- Critical to the success of a reward-based crowdfunding campaign is the targeted and appropriate use of social media before and during the campaign. Based on two common theoretical explanatory strands, namely the information economics approach (signaling theory) and the resource-based approach (social capital theory), the article presents the functioning and background of crowdsale and explains the relevance of social media for the success of such projects. The article shows how the probability of success of campaigns can be significantly increased by reducing the information asymmetries between backers and starters and by activating the social media network.

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  • Katrin Kizilkan & Reinhard Schulte, 2022. "Die Bedeutung Sozialer Medien für das Reward based Crowdfunding," ZfKE – Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 70(2), pages 109-119.
  • Handle: RePEc:dah:aeqzfk:v70_y2022_i2_q2_p109-119
    DOI: 10.3790/zfke.70.2.109
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