Freiling, JörgBartel, Sebastian2020-03-092020-03-092016-11-02https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/1131Despite the huge number of startups staying behind the growth and value expectations of the venture-capital investor, there is still no profound understanding and only very few research concerning the failure of high-technology startup-enterprises. So far research concentrates on single factors without developing a coherent theory of startup failure. Against this background, this article outlines an explanation of startup failure in a venture-capital portfolio in spotlight of the joined Competence-based Theory of the Firm and the Path-theory, in order to explain the complex causal chains of failure.deinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEntrepreneurial FailureStartup FailureNew Venture FailureCompetence- based Theory of the FirmPath theoryCase-study Research.330Dissertationurn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105562-12