TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Ungerer, Christina A1 - König, Marc A1 - Giones, Ferran A1 - Baltes, Guido H. T1 - Reliably reading venture survival from the business plan BT - determining venture emergence and survival with computer-based content analysis of business plan text N2 - This paper builds upon the widely-used resource-based approach to explaining survival of new technology-based firms (NTBFs). However, instead of looking at the NTBF's initial resource configuration, a process-oriented perspective is taken by focusing on the entrepreneur's ability to transform resources in response to triggers resulting from market interactions. Transaction relations reflect these interactions and are thus operationalized with a suggested method for measuring the status of venture emergence (VE) applicable to early-stage NTBFs. NTBFs' value network maturity is reflected in the number and strength of their transaction relations in the four market dimensions customer, investor, partner, and human resource. Business plans of NTBFs represent the artifact that contains this data in the form of transaction relation descriptions. Using content analysis, a multi-step combined human and computer coding process has been developed to annotate and classify transaction relations from business plans in order to empirically determine NTBFs' status of VE. Results of the business plan analysis suggest that the level of transaction relations allows to draw conclusions on the VE status. Moreover, applying the developed process, first analysis of a business plan coding test shows that the transaction relation based VE status significantly relates to NTBF survival capability. KW - Venture emergence KW - Measurement methods KW - Business plan KW - Content analysis KW - Transaction relations Y1 - 2016 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303381671_Reliably_Reading_Venture_Survival_from_the_Business_Plan_Determining_Venture_Emergence_and_Survival_with_Computer-Based_Content_Analysis_of_Business_Plan_Texts SP - 7 S1 - 7 ER -