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An inquiry into the impact of pre start-up business planning on new business ventures' performance
Luc Sels,Christine Vanhoutte +1 more
- Vol. 2, pp 11-25
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The article was published on 2006-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: New business development & Business analysis.read more
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On the role of value-network strength as an indicator of technology-based venture’s survival and growth
TL;DR: In this paper, a pre-study was conducted based on a sample of forty business plans from an overall population of 800 business plans in a longitudinal sample from one of Europe's most active innovation systems, the regional State of Baden-Württemberg.
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Bank financing as an incentive for earnings management in business start-ups
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether business start-ups in need for external financing manage their earnings in the years prior to obtaining a first bank loan and find no evidence that bank lending decisions are actually influenced by this earnings management behavior.
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Strenthening opportunities of economic relations between Lithuania and Sweden within the perspective of IT startup company’s development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework to structuralize IT startup business success factors and to jointly develop base for decisions, execution of which would help ensure effective, economic co-operation development based with Sweden, beginning of IT startup businesses and such business's continuity.
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Measuring Venture Emergence and Survival by Analyzing Transaction Relations in Business Plans : Using Network Theory Constructs and Computer-Based Content Analysis to determine the VE status and survival capability of NTBFs
TL;DR: 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 to empirically determine NTBFs’ status of VE.
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Reliably Reading Venture Survival from the Business Plan Determining Venture Emergence and Survival with Computer-Based Content Analysis of Business Plan Texts
TL;DR: In this article, 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.
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The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
Reuben M. Baron,David A. Kenny +1 more
TL;DR: This article seeks to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ, and delineates the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena.
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Initial human and financial capital as predictors of new venture performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model to predict the performance of new ventures based on factors that can be observed at the time of start-up, such as education, gender, race, education, and race.
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The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied hundreds of successful start-ups and found that the typical business has a humble, improvised origins and that success requires carefully chosen bets, meticulous planning, and the smooth coordination of many employees rather than the talents of a driven few.
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Exploring start-up event sequences
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed new venture start-up activities undertaken by 71 entrepreneurs and found that those who were able to start a business were more aggressive in making their businesses real.
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Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures
Frédéric Delmar,Scott Shane +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that business planning is an important precursor to action in new ventures, by helping firm founders to make decisions, to balance resource supply and demand, and to turn abstract goals into concrete operational steps.