Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Inclusion criteria and queries (Q1, Q2) | Ex ante exclusion criteria | Ex post exclusion criteria |
|---|---|---|
| (i) Documents available in at least one of the two databases: Elsevier’s Scopus and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (ii) Q1: Documents that contain (not necessarily in this order) “Equity,” “crowdfunding” and “success” within title, abstract or keywords Q2: Documents that contain (not necessarily in this order) “Equity,” “crowdfunding” and “failure” within title, abstract or keywords (iii) No timespan boundaries (all published documents) (iv) Documents available in English | (i) Nonpeer-reviewed documents: – Book chapters – Reports – Lecture notes – Conference proceedings – Others (ii) Duplicates | (i) Articles that examine different types of crowdfunding rather than ECF (ii) Articles that do not examine success/failure factors of campaigns (iii) Articles focused on postfunding dimension (iv) Articles focused on prefunding dimension (v) Articles that examine other nonpertaining or nonfocused topics (vi) Nonempirical articles |
| Inclusion criteria and queries | Ex ante exclusion criteria | Ex post exclusion criteria |
|---|---|---|
| (i) Documents available in at least one of the two databases: Elsevier’s Scopus and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science | (i) Nonpeer-reviewed documents: | (i) Articles that examine different types of crowdfunding rather than ECF |