Entrepreneurial Complexity

Matthias Dehmer is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr School of Management and UMIT – The Health and Life Sciences University in Austria. He also holds a guest professorship at Nankai University, College of Artificial Intelligence in China. His research interests are in graph theory, complex networks, complexity, data science, machine learning, big data analytics, and information theory. In particular, he is also working on machine learningbased methods to design new data analysis methods for solving problems in manufacturing and production.Frank Emmert-Streib is a professor at Tampere University, Finland, heading the Predictive Society and Data Analytics Lab. His research interests are in the field of data science, machine learning and network science in the development and application of methods from statistics and machine learning for the analysis of big data from genomics, finance, social media and business.Herbert Jodlbauer is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr School of Management and also acts as a director of studies of the bachelor study program Production and Management and the master study program Operations Management. Furthermore, he leads the trans-faculty institute of Smart Production. His research is primarily concerned with production planning, time continuous production models, financial valuation of production related decisionmaking as well as digitalization.

• ContentsPreface ixEditors xiContributors xiii1 Entrepreneurs for Renewables: Emergence of Innovation andEntrepreneurship in Complex Social Systems 1Diana Süsser, Barbara Weig, Martin Döring andBeate M.W. Ratter2 Entrepreneurial Network Effects: Empirical Observations ofEntrepreneurial Networks in a World of Complexity 49John T. Scott3 Entrepreneurial Process: The Overbearing Role of Complex SocialNetwork 61Adekiya Adewale and Ahmed Musbah Aboyssir4 Sustainable Entrepreneurial Activity within Complex Economic Systems 89Panagiotis E. Petrakis and Kyriaki I. Kafka5 Integration Opportunities of Stability-Oriented Processes for Real EstateTransaction Entities 109Linda Kauškale and Ineta Geipele6 Entrepreneurial Dispositions Personality Inventory: Development andValidation 117Konrad Janowski, Marcin Waldemar Staniewski andKatarzyna Awruk7 Mapping the Entrepreneurship from a Gender Perspective 141Magdalena Suárez-Ortega, María del RocíoGálvez-García and María Fe Sánchez-GarcíaIndex 171