In this paper, we study the following nonlocal problem: $$ \textstyle\begin{cases} - (a-b \int _{\Omega } \vert \nabla u \vert ^{2}\,dx ) \Delta u= \lambda \vert u \vert ^{q-2}u, & x\in \Omega , \\ u=0, & x\in \partial \Omega , \end{cases} $$
{
−
(
a
−
b
∫
Ω
|
∇
u
|
2
d
x
)
Δ
u
=
λ
|
u
|
q
−
2
u
,
x
∈
Ω
,
u
=
0
,
x
∈
∂
Ω
,
where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$
R
N
with $N\ge 3$
N
≥
3
, $a,b>0$
a
,
b
>
0
, $1< q<2$
1
<
q
<
2
and $\lambda >0$
λ
>
0
is a parameter. By virtue of the variational method and Nehari manifold, we prove the existence of multiple positive solutions for the nonlocal problem. As a co-product of our arguments, we also obtain the blow-up and the asymptotic behavior of these solutions as $b\searrow 0$
b
↘
0
.