Understanding Entrepreneurship through Chaos and Complexity Perspectives

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Wassim J. Aloulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complexity Theories ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

This chapter aims to cover entrepreneurship as an emergent field of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. Four different dominant paradigms are developed in this research field. The chapter shows that, in the last two decades, several scholars adopted the chaos and complexity sciences as important perspectives in the social sciences and especially in management sciences, small business and entrepreneurship. Then, the chapter aims also to introduce the pioneering contributions of theses scholars intending to understand entrepreneurship (its conditions, properties and processes of emergence) through the chaos and complexity theories and produce valuable knowledge in this field. And finally, the chapter presents some discussions and implication for future entrepreneurship research perspectives related to three research mainstreams: social, strategic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning. In conclusion, the chapter invites researchers to benefit from the chaos and complexity perspectives in order not to miss opportunity to enrich their theory building in entrepreneurship research.

Understanding Entrepreneurship through Chaos and Complexity Perspectives

2016 ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wassim J. Aloulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complexity Theories ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry

This chapter aims to cover entrepreneurship as an emergent field of scholarly inquiry in the social sciences. Four different dominant paradigms are developed in this research field. The chapter shows that, in the last two decades, several scholars adopted the chaos and complexity sciences as important perspectives in the social sciences and especially in management sciences, small business and entrepreneurship. Then, the chapter aims also to introduce the pioneering contributions of theses scholars intending to understand entrepreneurship (its conditions, properties and processes of emergence) through the chaos and complexity theories and produce valuable knowledge in this field. And finally, the chapter presents some discussions and implication for future entrepreneurship research perspectives related to three research mainstreams: social, strategic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning. In conclusion, the chapter invites researchers to benefit from the chaos and complexity perspectives in order not to miss opportunity to enrich their theory building in entrepreneurship research.

Opinion Dynamics

2013 ◽  
pp. 311-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoxiang Xia ◽  
Huili Wang ◽  
Zhaoguo Xuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
The Social

As a key sub-field of social dynamics and sociophysics, opinion dynamics utilizes mathematical and physical models and the agent-based computational modeling tools, to investigate the spreading of opinions in a collection of human beings. This research field stems from various disciplines in social sciences, especially the social influence models developed in social psychology and sociology. A multidisciplinary review is given in this paper, attempting to keep track of the historical development of the field and to shed light on its future directions. In the review, the authors discuss the disciplinary origins of opinion dynamics, showing that the combination of the social processes, which are conventionally studied in social sciences, and the analytical and computational tools, which are developed in mathematics, physics and complex system studies, gives birth to the interdisciplinary field of opinion dynamics. The current state of the art of opinion dynamics is then overviewed, with the research progresses on the typical models like the voter model, the Sznajd model, the culture dissemination model, and the bounded confidence model being highlighted. Correspondingly, the future directions of this academic field are envisioned, with an advocation for closer synthesis of the related disciplines.

scholarly journals Methods for Classification of Text Data: Can the Potential of Quantitative Analysis Be Applied to Qualitative Research?

Inter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Marina Aleksandrova
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Item Nonresponse ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Analysis Of Results

Text mining has developed rapidly in recent years. In this article we compare classification methods that are suitable for solving problems of predicting item nonresponse. The author builds reasoning about how the analysis of textual data can be implemented in a wider research field based on this material. The author considers a number of metrics adapted for textual analysis in the social sciences: accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and gives examples that can help a sociologist figure out which of them is worth paying attention depending on the task at hand (classify text data with equal accuracy, or more fully describe one of the classes of interest). The article proposes an analysis of results obtained by analyzing texts based on the materials of the European Social Survey (ESS).

scholarly journals Happiness Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta Hallberg ◽  
Christopher Kullenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Science And Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This article is about the growth and establishment of the interdisciplinary research field ”Happiness Studies”. This article focuses on how research on happiness has become a quickly growing and successful field within western societies and what it says about both the social sciences and contemporary social order. The concept of co-production, as defined by Sheila Jasanoff, is used to show how science and society interact and influence each other. Hence, we show how happiness has become a significant topic for empirical studies and the way interdisciplinary research is intertwined with what is perceived as both challenging and worth striving for in society and culture.

scholarly journals Farewell to (post)colonialism in Danish-Greenlandic relations? And then again, maybe not…

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Musiał ◽  
Agata Lubowicka
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post Colonialism

The aim of the article is to investigate the allegedly new relationship between Greenland and Denmark in Danish political and literary discourses relating to Greenland, by approaching it from two different research perspectives – those of political and literary studies. The analysis draws on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts of habitus, capitals and dispositions that together create a hegemonic order. It also applies the concept of framing, as operationalised by A. Pluwak, B. Scheufele, W.A. Gamson, and A. Modigliani in the social sciences. The essay is structured according to the core framing tasks: diagnostic, prognostic and motivational, and their confluence with the temporal frames of the 1950s, the 1970s and the period beyond the 1990s. The analysis employs examples from both post-WW2 official documents related to Greenland and produced in or on behalf of Denmark, and from Danish literature about Greenland published in the same time periods.

scholarly journals Decision from Experience Behavior Modeling (DEBM): an open-source Python package for developing, evaluating, and visualizing behavioral models.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofir Yakobi ◽  
Yefim Roth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Parameter Estimation ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Behavior Modeling ◽  
Grid Search ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Python Package

The last decade was characterized by an emphasis on enhancing reproducibility and replicability in the social sciences. To contribute to these efforts within the decision-making research field, we introduce DEBM (Decision from Experience Behavior Modeling) – an open-source Python package. The main goal of DEBM is to serve as a central colloberative pool of models and methods in the decision from experience domain. Specifically, it provides a convenient “playground” for developing models or experimenting with existing ones. DEBM includes many features such as multiprocessing, parameter estimation, visualization, and more. In this paper we cover the basic functionality of DEBM by simulating behavior using an existing model and given parameters, and recovering these parameters using grid search.

scholarly journals Lusotopie, Lusotopy. What Legacy, What Future?

Lusotopie ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Michel Cahen ◽  
Irène Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

AbstractThe introduction of this issue goes back over the history of the creation of the Lusotopie journal. It also questions the scope of the concept of lusotopy in the social sciences. The intellectual project of the journal, published from 1994 onwards, was complex and ambitious. Lusotopie is not a review of “cultural-area” studies, but a generalist review of political analysis, in the broadest sense, from an empirically-delimited research field: that of the area drawn by Portuguese history and colonization. It was both to escape the contemporary neo-imperial approach of “Lusophony” and to overcome the simply negative criticism of the ideology of Lusophony (in its literary, political and economic aspects), which as such does not provide a tool for understanding the realities produced by history.

To Mine or Not to Mine?

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-246
Author(s):  
Jesus Pedro Zamora Bonilla ◽  
Simone Centuori
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Social

Social studies of science have flourished within the last decades, making use of numerous intellectual tools from a high variety of academic fields in the social sciences and the humanities (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.). Game theory, however, has been one tool that has not been put to use too often, in spite of the obvious importance of strategic considerations in the negotiations between the relevant actors in research episodes. In this chapter, the authors illustrate the use of game-theoretical concepts and techniques with the analysis of a nascent research field: asteroid mining.

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