The Semantics of Entrepreneurial Learning in New Technology-Based Firms : Evaluating NTBFs’ Entrepreneurial Progress Using Content Analysis of Business Plan
- 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.
Author: | Marc König, Christina UngererORCiD, Guido H. BaltesORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73509-2_1 |
ISBN: | 978-3-319-73508-5 |
Parent Title (English): | Technology Entrepreneurship |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publication: | Cham |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Identifier: | Im Katalog der Hochschule Konstanz ansehen |
Release Date: | 2019/01/08 |
First Page: | 3 |
Last Page: | 20 |
Note: | Volltextzugriff für Angehörige der Hochschule Konstanz möglich. |
Institutes: | Institut für Strategische Innovation und Technologiemanagement - IST |
Open Access?: | Nein |
Licence (German): | ![]() |