Crowd inputs in reward-based and equity-based crowdfunding: a latent Dirichlet allocation approach on their potential for innovation Available to Purchase

Edoardo Crocco is a third year PhD student at the Department of Management of the University of Turin, Italy. He graduated from both the bachelor’s and the master’s degree in the same department and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Business and Administration. His research interests focus on the Accounting field. In particular, he has been studying the digitisation process of SMEs scattered throughout the region and, more recently, the implications of said digitisation process in Accounting Education.

Elisa Giacosa received the PhD Degree in Business Administration in 2003 in the University of Turin, Italy. She is Full Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Management, University of Turin, Italy. She teaches Financial Accounting and International Financial Accounting courses in the University of Turin, Italy. Her main areas of research include family businesses, food business, crisis management and university missions, on which several international publications have been focussed. She is Associate Fellow of the EuroMed Academy of Business.

Dorra Yahiaoui, PhD is a full professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour; Director of Management Department and Head of the Research Centre of Excellence in International Business at Kedge Business School. She is also head of the research group Human Resource Management at EuroMed Research Business Institute. Her research interests include: cross-countries comparison of managerial practices, innovation process within MNCs, headquarter-subsidiaries relationship, internationalisation strategy and Management in Middle East, African and Asian countries.

Francesca Culasso is Head of the Department of Management, University of Turin, Italy. She is Full Professor of Management Accounting and Strategic Planning and Control (Department of Management, Turin). She is also Adjunct Professor at ESCP Europe, Italy. Her research interests are in management accounting, cost management, strategic planning, corporate governance, risk management, family businesses, the organisational and behavioural aspects of accounting and university missions, on which several international publications have been focussed. She is Associate Fellow of the Euromed Academy of Business.