Crowdfunding is one of the best financial technology segments and has emerged as one of the leading platforms for startups to acquire funding. This paper identifies numerous benefits of Crowdfunding and investigates the influence of various factors, i.e., economic benefit, convenience and transaction process, social media, and social support, with the mediating effects of Motivation with gender moderation on an entrepreneur's perceived benefit of having the Intention to use the crowdfunding platform. The adapted questionnaire with a sample size of 240 is used in this study to survey the entrepreneurs of Pakistan by using a convenience sampling technique. Linear regression analysis tests the hypotheses with Smart Pls 3.0 software. The findings of this study confirmed that all direct relationships have a significant relationship with the Intention to use Crowdfunding. In contrast, the moderation of effects of gender was found to have an insignificant relationship with the Intention to use a crowdfunding platform. However, the contribution and significance of the study have also been discussed.
This research investigates the aspect that impacts the autonomy of employees and sustainable HRM involved in corporate recognition against competitors and propensity to leave. This stud supports the idea that resilient employees have the autonomy to change the status of an organization. This study focused solely on employee resilience on the two effects of perceived insider status and perceived external prestige in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the linkages that exist between the study factors. This study further analyzed that job autonomy may also enhance the employee’s capability and potential to try and do their job in the best possible way. Moreover, In this study, questions (items) were taken from previous research studies that were cited in reputable SCI or ESCI publications. Additionally, sophisticated PLS software was employed to carry out the structural equation modeling. This mechanism is based primarily on the subject's comfort to exact process the participants for having to respond to the studies tool or amassing data. Further findings discuss in the study.
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