This scale assesses how much a person believes a crowdfunding request is framed around an early-stage, experimental project exploring new product ideas or features. It is the exploration-oriented companion to Zhang et al.'s (2023) exploitation-framing measure, developed for the same crowdfunding studies.
Zhang, Yufei, Thomas E. DeCarlo, Andrew S. Manikas, and Abhi Bhattacharya (2023), "To Exploit or Explore? The Impact of Crowdfunding Project Descriptions and Backers' Power States on Funding Decisions," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 51 (2), 444-462.
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