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Thisvolume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship,innovation and technology research. Businesses as well as entire economies areincreasingly being confronted by widespread complex systems. Fields such asentrepreneurship and innovation cannot ignore this reality, especially withtheir inherent links to diverse research fields and interdisciplinary methods.However, most methods that allow more detailed analyses of complex problems areeither neglected in mainstream research or are, at best, still emerging.Against this backdrop, this book provides a forum for the discussion ofemergent and neglected methods in the context of complexity inentrepreneurship, innovation and technology research, and also acts as aninspiration for academics across related disciplines to engage more incomplexity research.
List of contents
Introduction.- Methodological and Conceptual Discussion.- Qualitative Methods.- Configurational Methods.- Semantic Methods.
About the author
Elisabeth Berger has been working as a
researcher and doctoral student at the business start-ups and entrepreneurship
research group at the university of Hohenheim since 2013. She has a research
interest in configurational methods, especially Qualitative Comparative
Analysis in the context of entrepreneurship. She has a Bachelor’s degree in
international business & finance from the Duale Hochschule Stuttgart and
the University of Glamorgan (UK) and a Master’s degree in international
business & economics from the University of Hohenheim.
Andreas Kuckertz is professor of
entrepreneurship at the University of Hohenheim. Moreover, he is an associate
member of the Networked Value Systems Research Group at the University of
Vaasa, Finland. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of
Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Journal of Small Business Management
and Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship. Within the European Council for
Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) he serves as the Country Vice
President Germany. He is a member of the board of FGF e.V., Germany's leading
academic association for entrepreneurship. After graduating in media and
communications, business administration and philosophy at the Universities of
Marburg and Leipzig (M.A. 2001), he finished his doctoral studies in 2005 at
the University of Duisburg-Essen with a thesis on venture capital finance. In
2011 he completed his professorial qualification (‘Habilitation’) at the
University of Duisburg-Essen. His research on various aspects of entrepreneurship,
strategy, and innovation has been published in journals such as Journal of
Business Venturing, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of
Technology Management, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development or Strategic
Entrepreneurship Journal.
Summary
This
volume discusses the challenge of dealing with complexity in entrepreneurship,
innovation and technology research. Businesses as well as entire economies are
increasingly being confronted by widespread complex systems. Fields such as
entrepreneurship and innovation cannot ignore this reality, especially with
their inherent links to diverse research fields and interdisciplinary methods.
However, most methods that allow more detailed analyses of complex problems are
either neglected in mainstream research or are, at best, still emerging.
Against this backdrop, this book provides a forum for the discussion of
emergent and neglected methods in the context of complexity in
entrepreneurship, innovation and technology research, and also acts as an
inspiration for academics across related disciplines to engage more in
complexity research.
