A relação entre a orientação empreendedora individual e as características do perfil empreendedor, e o seu impacto na intenção de empreender dos indivíduos

Abstract

Empretec is a methodology for entrepreneurship training, developed by the United Nations in the 1980s, based on McClelland's (1972) about on the characteristics of entrepreneur behavior (CEB), with the assumption that skills related to entrepreneurial attitudes can be developed, and are a part of an Entrepreneurial Profile (EP). The concept of Entrepreneurial Orientation was developed by Miller (1983), based on research about the correlation of the performance of companies oriented to act in an entrepreneurial way, exploring characteristics such as innovation, risk-taking and competitive aggressiveness. Bolton and Lane (2012) have gone further and developed Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO), which analyzes constructs such as willingness to take risks, innovation and proactivity. Thus, this study aims to analyze the relationship between the IEO and the characteristics of the EP, and its impact on the individuals' intention to undertaking, as well as the relation that Empretec has to these characteristics and the intention to undertaking. The research is quantitative, exploratory and descriptive, and the data were collected by a survey. The sample is non-probabilistic, intentional for convenience, based on clients and stakeholders of SEBRAE in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, for which a self-administered questionnaire was sent. The total number of respondents was 1,022 people (405 performed the Empretec training and 617 did not). Data analyses were statistical using SPSS software, and Pearson's correlation was used to verify the relationship between IEO and EP characteristics. Results showed that the comparison between the two scales that measure behaviors and attitudes and that were validated with a difference of approximately forty years, have presented moderate correlations between their constructs. Characteristics highlighted were the acceptance of risk taking and proactivity of the entrepreneurs. But the innovation dimensions of the IEO scale had no correlation with CEB. Finally, it was identified that the Empretec had no influence on EP and OEI.