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I am part of Lund University Agenda2030 Graduate School, space where we share multidisciplinary approaches to sustainability. Always open to discuss exponential technologies and their impact on society´s wellbeing.
In recent years, the phenomenon has evolved, and companies have managed to raise billions from investors worldwide. The growing popularity has caused the birth of equity crowdfunding as a research topic in its own right and the necessity to tackle its eventual weaknesses and problems caused.
My project wants to focus on the crowd, I believe investors represent the weaker part of the process and my aim is to explore the determinants and consequences of their investment experience. Investors are those who make the existence of equity crowdfunding itself possible, they have to be protected or the financing method might disappear and so may its positive contribution to entrepreneurship.
My research will primarily be focused on the 'provider side' of the industry, investigating motives for engaging in EI-activities, looking at both public and private actors. For example, research within my project might adress the of legitimacy in EI-activities carried by public actors answering questions like: What are the expectations of actors when funding or participating in projects? What arguments are put forward in order to accept such investments? And How do public and private actors compare in this sense?
Empirically, however, the ethicality of many entrepreneurial opportunities is more nuanced. By drawing heavily on ethical theories, my dissertation unpacks the grey zone in-between the bright and dark sides and explores entrepreneurial action that is productive and destructive – dependent on the perspective. Entrepreneurs who aim to “do things the right way” oftentimes face conflicting ethical interpretations in deciding what is “the right thing to do”. I study the cognitive processes underlying the entrepreneurs’ ethical assessments and investigate how these well-intended individuals come to take action when confronted with such ethical dilemmas.
