@inproceedings{5322ae36b9cd43d7a96bdfab73cd71fd,
title = "Measuring venture emergence and survival by analyzing transaction relations in business plans: UUsing network theory constructs and computer-based content analysis to determine the VE status and survival capability of NTBFs",
abstract = "This paper broadens the resource-based approach to explaining survival of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) by focusing on the entrepreneur's ability to transform resources in response to triggers resulting from market interactions. Network theory is used to define a construct that allows determining the status of venture emergence (VE).The operationalization of the VE construct is built on the firm's value network maturity 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 empirically determine NTBFs' status of VE.Results of the business plan analysis suggests that the level of transaction relations allows to draw conclusions on the status of VE. Moreover, applying the developed process, a business plan coding test shows that the transaction relation based VE status significantly relates to NTBFs' survival capabilities.",
keywords = "Business plan, Content analysis, Measurement methods, Transaction relations, Venture emergence",
author = "Christina Ungerer and Marc Konig and Ferran Giones and Guido Baltes",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 22nd International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation/IEEE lnternational Technology Management Conference, ICE/ITMC 2016 ; Conference date: 13-06-2016 Through 15-06-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1109/ICE/ITMC39735.2016.9026135",
language = "English",
series = "2016 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation/IEEE lnternational Technology Management Conference, ICE/ITMC 2016 - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
editor = "Kjetil Kristensen and Robert Bierwolf and David Romero and Pekka Abrahamsson",
booktitle = "2016 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation/IEEE lnternational Technology Management Conference, ICE/ITMC 2016 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}