Identification of Effective and Influential Factors on Debt Financing for Financial Institutions and Banks in the form of crowdfunding Using Fuzzy DEMATEL Method

The purpose of this research is to identify the effective factors on the debt financing of the financial institutions and banks in the form of the crowdfunding using Fuzzy DEMATEL to propose a model for obtaining the essential conditions for crowdfunding. Debt financing is borrowing money from companies and investors through bonds, banks or financial institutions to support related business activities. The research methodology is fuzzy technique, in which multi-criteria decision method (MADM) is used. The opinions of the experts and interviews with ten related experts and the snowball method have been used to reach the theoretical saturation stage in order to identify the factors affecting the development of crowdfunding model and also open, axial and optional coding has been considered. The results depicted identification of the influential factors in crowdfunding including legalism, culture building, funding, collective communication, e-commerce and trust building. According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that this issue is difficult regardless of the effective factors of crowdfunding to finance debt in financial institutions and banks in order to grow.