Assessing the interplay between crowdfunding and sustainability in social media

PublikationArtikel (med peer review)

Christian Sandström, Christofer Laurell, Crowdfunding, Företagandets villkor, Hållbarhet, Sociala medier, Yuliani Suseno

Sammanfattning

This paper aims to assess the degree to which sustainability-oriented dimensions are integrated within the public discourse on crowdfunding in social media. Utilizing Social Media Analytics (SMA), we track discussions on crowdfunding in user-generated content published in social media. Based on an empirical material of 141,754 user-generated content, we identify 308 entries (0.21 percent) explicitly or implicitly relating to sustainability and 80 percent of these 308 entries came from professional actors. In this material, 37 sustainability-oriented campaigns are identified and 26 of them (70 percent) received one entry. Taken together, this paper adds to previous literature by assessing and describing the seemingly minor role played by social media with regards to the interplay between crowdfunding and sustainability.

Laurell, C., Sandström, C. & Suseno, Y. (2019). Assessing the interplay between crowdfunding and sustainability in social media. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 141, 117-127. DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.015

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Social media analytics for innovation management research: A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Artikel (med peer review)Publikation

Geissinger, A., Laurell, C., Öberg, C., & Sandström, C.

Publiceringsår

2023

Publicerat i

Technovation, 123, 102712.

Sammanfattning

New trends in innovation management may require new research methods. Social media analytics (SMA)—a method for capturing and analyzing data from user-generated content published on online platforms—has emerged as a complement or even alternative to more traditional research methods. This article systematically reviews and assesses the use of SMA and its potential for innovation management research. Our results show that use of SMA is still in an emergent phase, although it has become increasingly popular over the past decade. Our literature review illustrates that SMA provides new opportunities for innovation management scholars to enhance customer-, market-, technology-, and society-focused innovation research in several ways. In this paper we develop a research agenda and suggest areas for future research using SMA in innovation management.

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Evaluating Evaluations of Innovation Policy: Exploring Reliability, Methods, and Conflicts of Interest

BokkapitelPublikation

Collin, E., Sandström, C., & Wennberg, K.

Publiceringsår

2022

Publicerat i

Questioning the Entrepreneurial State, 157.

Sammanfattning

Expansions of innovation policies have been paralleled with an increase in the evaluations of such policies. Yet, there are few systematic evaluations of how such evaluations are conducted, by whom, and their overall conclusions. We analyze 110 evaluations of innovation policy in Sweden from 2005 to 2019. Our findings show that the majority of these evaluations are positive, about one-third are neutral in their conclusions, and very few are negative. The majority of evaluations were conducted by consulting firms, close to one-third by expert government agencies, and around 10% by university researchers or as self-evaluations by the governmental agencies responsible for the policy themselves. Few evaluations employed causal methods to assess the potential effects of policies. We discuss conflicts of interest and question the reliability of evaluations of innovation policy.

Det ”Gröna” stålet i Norrland – ett nytt stålverk 80?

Artikel (utan peer review)Publikation

Henrekson, M. & Sandström, C.

Publiceringsår

2022

Publicerat i

Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 51(1), s. 1-6.

Sammanfattning

The article can be accessed here.

Henrekson, M. & Sandström, C. (2022). Det ”Gröna” stålet i Norrland – ett nytt stålverk 80? Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 51(1), s. 1-6.

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