Studying crowdfunded social enterprises

The dataset includes four constructs: (1) Crowdfunding, (2) legitimacy, (3) autonomy, and (4) performance. The model demonstrates how access to crowdfunding might influence social enterprises' legitimacy, autonomy, and performance. The level of analysis is the social enterprises investigated based on their observed performance, autonomy, and externally evaluated legitimacy. The study utilised deductive quantitative methodology and follows a survey research design and employs statistical methods.