Exploring the donation allocation of online charitable crowdfunding based on topical and spatial analysis: Evidence from the Tencent GongYi

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Highlights：

• A novel topic-mining method is proposed to identify initiators’ intentions from a plethora of project descriptions.

• The spatial allocation of donations is investigated by exploring the spatial patterns of cross-regional donation flows.

• Most of the donations are used to fund neglected children in rural areas and neglected elders.

• The flow of donations is not equitably distributed and tends to be concentrated in a few relatively developed regions.

摘要

•A novel topic-mining method is proposed to identify initiators’ intentions from a plethora of project descriptions.•The spatial allocation of donations is investigated by exploring the spatial patterns of cross-regional donation flows.•Most of the donations are used to fund neglected children in rural areas and neglected elders.•The flow of donations is not equitably distributed and tends to be concentrated in a few relatively developed regions.

论文关键词：Charitable Crowdfunding,Donation Allocation,Topic Mining,Fundraising Intention,Spatial Analysis,Tencent GongYi

论文评审过程：Received 7 March 2020, Revised 7 May 2020, Accepted 5 June 2020, Available online 24 June 2020, Version of Record 24 June 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102322