Maximilian Raab, M.Sc.

Maximilian Raab has been a research associate at the Chair of Business Informatics, specifically Industrial Information Systems, at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg since April 2017, where he previously completed his Master's degree in Business Informatics. In his Master's thesis, Maximilian Raab conducted a quantitative study on the factors influencing crowdfunding success. Prior to his Master's studies, he worked as a software developer at the software company DATEV e.G., where he also gained experience during his Bachelor's and Master's programs.

Maximilian Raab's research focuses on the investigation of crowdfunding platforms. His research interests include the examination of the factors that influence investment behavior, with a particular emphasis on affective and cognitive aspects, as well as the design and implementation of these factors on crowdfunding platforms.

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Raab, M.; Schlauderer, S.; Overhage, S.; Friedrich, T.: More than a Feeling: Investigating the Contagious Effect of Facial Emotional Expressions on Investment Decisions in Reward-Based Crowdfunding. In: Decision Support Systems 135 (2020). Rubrik: Completed Research Paper.

Raab, M.: The Influence of Campaign Presentation Cues on Crowdfunding Performance – Reviewing the Empirical Reward-Based Crowdfunding Literature. In: Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems 15:3 (2023), S. 105-131. Rubrik: Completed Research Paper.

Raab, M.; Friedrich, T.; Schlauderer, S.; Overhage, S.: Understanding the Role of Social Presence in Crowdfunding: Evidence from Leading U.S. and German Platforms. In: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Guimarães, Portugal 2017. Rubrik:Completed Research Paper.