TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - König, Marc
A1  - Ungerer, Christina
A1  - Baltes, Guido H.
T1  - The Semantics of Entrepreneurial Learning in New Technology-Based Firms
BT  - Evaluating NTBFs’ Entrepreneurial Progress Using Content Analysis of Business Plan
T2  - Technology Entrepreneurship
N2  - New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) learn their business in the early-stages of their life-cycle. As a central element of the entrepreneurial learning process, the business model describes the value-creation functions that are conceptualized in different stages of the NTBF’s life-cycle. Transaction relations connect the model with the business reality and ideally mature in strength over time to a functioning value-network. This chapter describes the development of a research design that determines, extracts, and evaluates semantics constructs of this entrepreneurial learning out of a convenient sample and three cohorts of business plans submitted to a business plan award between 2008 and 2010. The analysis shows empirical evidence for the survival and growth of those NTBFs that exhibit a balanced status of entrepreneurial learning in the maturity of the value-network that can be characterized as early startup-stage. The empirical findings of the network theory based business plan analysis will allow for a better explanation of the performance in the entrepreneurial process that is discussed for NTBFs based on theory of organizational learning.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-73508-5
SB  - 978-3-319-73508-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73509-2_1
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73509-2_1
N1  - Volltextzugriff für Angehörige der Hochschule Konstanz  möglich.
SP  - 3
EP  - 20
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -