Dissertations / Theses: 'Entrepreneurial behavior'

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Delmar, Frédéric. "Entrepreneurial behavior and business performance." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Centrum för Riskforskning (CFR), 1996. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-1210.

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How does the behavior of the entrepreneur affect the development and performance of the business venture? Why do some small business owner-managers remain small, when others wish to grow? In this dissertation the author tries to answer these questions by examining the importance of stable psychological characteristics of the entrepreneur on business performance and expected future performance. The author argues that the entrepreneurship research focus on the entrepreneurial personality is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of psychological factors such as intellectual ability and motivation that matter immensely in terms of how entrepreneurs act. Drawing on modern psychological and entrepreneurship research, the author shows how emotions, attitudes, values, IQ, and attribution affect the entrepreneurs’ behavior and subsequently the performance of the business. The author’s own research is presented and commented upon in six different research papers and in a comprehensive introduction chapter.
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Delmar, Frédéric. "Entrepreneurial behavior and business performance /." Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögsk.) (EFI), 1996. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/430.htm.

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Walton, Brien C. "Is emotional intelligence predictive or entrepreneurial success?" Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10158700.

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There are more self-made, billionaire entrepreneurs than billionaires who simply inherited their fortunes, but the majority of startup ventures fail within five years. A possible factor in business success or failure could be the emotional intelligence (EI) level of the entrepreneur, defined broadly as the ability to perceive, interpret, and manage emotions. Although there is substantial literature on EI applications in established organizations, there are few empirical studies exploring the predictive value of EI in the context of success for startup entrepreneurs. The purpose of this study was to determine whether EI scores can predict how successful an entrepreneur will be using objective success criteria, as defined in this study (Hypothesis 1), and which, if any, EI competencies are particularly relevant for entrepreneurs (Hypothesis 2). Hypotheses were tested using Spearman correlation and Ordinal regression, with sensitivity testing with Pearson correlation and Ordinary Least Squares regression, respectively. Each analysis controlled for the entrepreneur’s demographic profile and subjective success measures. Regression analysis (n=31); ordinal analysis and correlation analysis revealed a statistically significant effect of only one of the 15 EI scores (Empathy) on entrepreneurial success, as defined in this study, but the exponentiated coefficients from the ordinal regression indicate that improving Overall EI scores can increase Overall Success. Specifically, six of the 15 EI scores were more than two times more likely to increase Overall Success scores (Empathy, Interpersonal Relationships, Social Responsibility, Flexibility, Stress Tolerance, and Optimism), which is consistent with Hypothesis 2. This study is one of the first to empirically examine the EI construct in the context of entrepreneurial success with a population of entrepreneurs seeking assistance using the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment. A key implication of the results is that teachers, emergency services personnel, legal and financial services personnel, even sports coaches and single parents, can all develop competencies to make them more successful in their chosen endeavor, have a sense of fulfillment, and increase the success rate of industries that go far beyond entrepreneurs.

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Murillo, Maria Margarita Morales. "Entrepreneurial behavior in self-employed direct selling representatives in Brazil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17767.

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Micro-entrepreneurs and one-person business sector are important factors in the dynamics of emerging economies. In Brazil specifically, around 4,5 million of them are affiliated with direct selling companies. They are non-salaried; receive commissions on sales and work for themselves by setting their own hours and creating their own marketing plans. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between key entrepreneurial behaviors and sales performance among self-employed direct selling representatives in Brazil (SEDSR). Based on a quantitative approach, four independent variables were measured in a sample of 651 SEDSR: need of achievement (NA), self-efficacy (SE), risk-taking propensity (RP) and locus of control (LC). Dependent variable was business performance (Y1). An online survey was submitted to an email address database provided by a global direct selling company with operations in Brazil. Descriptive statistical and regression analysis were performed with the intent to determine first, the prevalence of each entrepreneur behavior, in a population that is traditionally pushed into direct selling by necessity and second, how each affects and predicts business performance. Results showed there is a high prevalence in terms of NA and SE, confirming these behaviors are not exclusive on successful and formal entrepreneurs. LC and RP receive medium score. Unexpectedly, results also show that none of the behaviors on its own have significant impact in predicting business performance. When putting the four behaviors into one only single regression model correlation increases slightly but not enough to make results conclusive. Through main effect plot analysis, results also suggest SE and NA are the biggest influencer factors in business success of a SEDSR. Finally, analyzing the best interactions of the variables allowed building a profile to achieve the maximum business performance. This study attempts to contribute to the academic field of the entrepreneurship and has practical implications in direct selling industry. On the first, it contributes to the existing body of knowledge on the direct selling entrepreneurship and specifically, to the conceptual debate if SEDSR should or should not be defined as micro-entrepreneurs per se and not simply, as sales distributors as some authors defend. On the second, this study provided insights to direct selling managers that could use to improve recruitment and engagement process of their independent sales force. Further studies need to include other variables besides entrepreneurial behavior to better understand and predict business performance and how enable SEDSR to transition from necessity-driven entrepreneurship to opportunity-driven.
Micros empreendedores e o setor de negócios unipessoais são fatores importantes na dinâmica de economias emergentes. No Brasil especificamente, em torno de 4,5 milhões deles são afiliados com empresas de vendas diretas. Eles são não assalariados, mas recebem comissões sobre as vendas e trabalham para si próprios, definindo suas próprias horas de trabalho e criando seus próprios planos de marketing. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a relação entre o comportamento empreendedor e o desempenho de vendas desse representante independente da venda direta no Brasil (SEDSR). Baseado em uma abordagem quantitativa, quatro variáveis independentes foram medidas em uma amostra de 651 revendedores: necessidade de logro (NA), auto eficácia (SE), propensão a assumir riscos (RP) e lócus de controle (LC). A variável dependente foi o desempenho de vendas (Y1). Uma pesquisa online foi submetida a uma lista de e-mail fornecida por uma empresa de venda direta global, com operações no Brasil. Análise descritivas e regressões estatísticas foram realizadas com o intuito de determinar, primeiro, a predominância de cada comportamento empreendedor em uma população que tradicionalmente atua na venda direta por necessidade. Segundo, como cada um desses comportamentos afetam e prevêem o desempenho empresarial. Os resultados mostraram que há uma alta predominância em termos de ND e SE, confirmando que esses comportamentos não são exclusivos em empresários bem sucedidos e formais, já LC e RP receberam pontuação média. Inesperadamente, os resultados também mostram que nenhum dos comportamentos por si só tem um impacto significativo na previsão de desempenho de negócios. Quando considerados os quatro comportamentos em um único modelo de regressão, a correlação aumenta ligeiramente, mas não o suficiente para tornar os resultados conclusivos. Por meio da análise do gráfico de efeitos principais, os resultados sugeriram que SE e AT são os maiores fatores influenciadores no sucesso empresarial de um SEDSR. Finalmente, a análise das melhores interações entre as variáveis permitiu a construção de um perfil para o desempenho máximo do negócio. Por fim este estudo buscou contribuir com o campo acadêmico sobre empreendedorismo e propôs implicações práticas na indústria de venda direta. Em primeiro lugar, contribuiu para o acervo de conhecimentos sobre empreendedorismo na venda direta e especificamente para o debate conceitual sobre o SEDSR, se deve ou não ser definido como microempresários e não simplesmente como distribuidores de vendas como alguns autores defendem. Em segundo lugar, este estudo forneceu dados para que gestores da venda direta possam melhorar o processo de recrutamento e o engajamento de sua força de vendas independente. Mais estudos poderiam considerar outras variáveis além do comportamento empreendedor para melhor compreender e prever o desempenho dos negócios e como capacitar o SEDSR a realizar a transição de empreendedorismo orientado à necessidade para a orientação à oportunidade.

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Berger, Jonas, and Atle Myhrer. "The Effect of Business Plan Competitions on Entrepreneurial Intention and Behavior." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-20972.

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Paper one tests the self-efficacy part of the theory of planned behavior, for which the paper finds empirical support. Further, it is found that self-efficacy is increased through participation in business plan competitions, and that this affects the self-efficacy of women more than that of men. Learning institutions and governments should, as a result, focus more on self-efficacy by introducing more and better business plan competitions. Further, adapting these to better fit the needs of women will contribute to fully utilizing the entrepreneurial potential, spurring more economic growth. Paper two explores the relation between learning obtained during Venture Cup and the increase in entrepreneurial intention and involvement. The findings suggest a difference in the effect the various learning modules have on entrepreneurial intention, providing implications for both practitioners and future studies. The implications for the former are an open-ended contingency model for organizing business plan courses in a more dynamic manner. Our contribution to this model is a differentiation of the learning modules. In addition, this study contributes to expand the theory of planned behavior by adding an additional predictor, the learning effect obtained during a business course.

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BARBOSA, EDUARDO COSTA. "ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR, INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR AND BUSINESS SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR: A CONTRIBUTION TO SCHEMATIC, SEARCH OF SIMILARITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16460@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
O contexto atual do mundo dos negócios exige mudanças contínuas nas empresas e conduz à necessidade de administradores cujo perfil se estenda além da formação acadêmica tradicional, exigindo qualidades comportamentais adicionais, bem como visão abrangente do mundo. A formação e o conhecimento de processos, métodos e técnicas de gestão são fatores necessários, mas não suficientes, para o enfrentamento dos desafios atuais: faz-se necessária, também, uma postura que identifique oportunidades e promova transformações. Diante do exposto, e a partir da observação de uma lacuna na literatura de administração brasileira, o propósito final dessa dissertação consistiu em discutir de que forma o comportamento empreendedor, desenvolvido pela capacitação empreendedora, associa-se à conduta inovadora, assim como clarificar a relação entre o comportamento empreendedor e o comportamento empresarial sustentável. A possível articulação entre os três eixos comportamentais decorreu do fato de ser possível identificar características comuns ao comportamento empreendedor, à conduta inovadora e ao comportamento empresarial sustentável. Para tanto, adotou-se para esse estudo uma alegação de conhecimento construtivista com a intenção de desenvolver um padrão de significado e entender, interpretar e perceber o seu sentido. O tipo de pesquisa adotada foi descritiva e explicativa por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e telematizada. Como resultado do estudo, propõese uma esquematização e uma associação, que mais do que somente demonstrar uma simples aproximação entre os temas, sugere uma inter-relação entre a capacitação empreendedora, o comportamento empreendedor, a conduta inovadora, o comportamento empresarial sustentável e a sustentabilidade empresarial.
The current context of the business world demands continuous changes in business and leads to the need for administrators whose profile extends beyond the traditional academic training, requiring additional behavioral qualities, and comprehensive view of the world. The formation and knowledge of processes, methods and techniques of management are necessary but not sufficient to face the current challenges: it is necessary an approach that identifies opportunities and promotes changes. In this light, and from the observation of a gap in the literature of the Brazilian administration, the ultimate purpose of this dissertation was to discuss how entrepreneurial behavior, developed by entrepreneurial education, is associated with innovative behavior and to clarify the relationship between entrepreneurial behavior and business sustainable behavior. The possible connection between the three main behavior due to the fact it is possible to identify common characteristics of entrepreneurial behavior, innovative behavior and business sustainable behavior. To this end, it was adopted for this study an allegation of constructive knowledge with the intention to develop a pattern of meaning and understand, interpret and understand its meaning. The type of research adopted was descriptive and explanatory by means of literature and internet sources. As a result of the study, it was proposed a layout and an association, more than just show a simple approach between the subjects, it suggests an interrelationship between entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial behavior, innovative behavior, business sustainable behavior and business sustainability.

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Connaghan, Karen M. "Essential entrepreneurial and innovation practices of executive leaders in California education service agencies." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10133187.

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The role of entrepreneurship and innovation in K–12 education continues to evolve. As more reform efforts come and go, it is clear that little has changed despite billions of dollars invested in these efforts. Education leaders are being asked to leverage entrepreneurial and innovative solutions to transform the K–12 education environment to meet the needs of a modern society and workplace. Consequently, there is an urgent need to expand the boundaries of possibilities for improving public education. Identifying the essential practices of executive education leaders is of particular importance to K–12 education which is under increasing pressure to provide better equity of resources, do more with less, close the student achievement gap, and prepare students for a future where most jobs have yet to be defined. To meet this challenge, executive education leaders must leverage and implement key entrepreneurial and innovation practices. The purpose of the study was to identify and understand the practices of executive level leaders in California County Offices of Education. The study was designed using the Delphi method approach of identification, shared evaluation, re-evaluation, and finally consensus among the executives to identify the essential entrepreneurial and innovation practices of education leaders. At the conclusion of the process, 15 executives identified 13 opportunity recognition, leadership, and staff practices they believe to be essential to support entrepreneurship and innovation in education. The 2 opportunity recognition skills were: (a) collaboration, (b) future-focus. The 8 leadership practices were: (a) articulate vision, (b) promote healthy organization culture, (c) flexibility, (d) life-long learning, (e) relationship building, (f) actively seek opportunities, (g) decisive. The 3 staff practices were: (a) trust, (b) flexibility, (c) drive. A key finding of the study was the identification of 3 overarching practices spanning opportunity recognition, leadership, and staff: (a) collaboration, (b) flexibility, and (c) future-focused. The essential practices identified in this study assist leaders in strengthening and transforming education organizations. By focusing on the identified essential practices, leaders are able to meet the challenges and complexity evident in today’s K–12 education environment, and create organizations where entrepreneurship and innovation can thrive in support of student learning.

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Verdesoto, Velástegui Oswaldo Santiago. "Emotional Competencies and Entrepreneurial Intention: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior." Doctoral thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/19841.

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This study analyzed the relationship between emotional competencies and entrepreneurial intention in final-year undergraduate students of public higher education institutions in Ecuador, supported by an extended model of Ajzen's Theory of planned behavior (1991). The results were derived from a questionnaire applied to students in the last semester of degrees involving academic business training. To analyze the results, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used. The findings show that emotional competencies are significant factors in the configuration of entrepreneurial intentions and have a direct and positive relationship with their cognitive precursors: entrepreneurial attitude and self-efficacy. It is suggested that students with a higher degree of emotional competencies cope better with the cognitive bias that can make it difficult to recognize business opportunities. The main contribution of this study was to generalize the results that have been obtained in the use of emotional competencies to promote the intentionality of entrepreneurship in the contexts of emerging economies.
Este estudio analizó el poder explicativo de las competencias emocionales y su relación con la intención emprendedora de los estudiantes de pregrado de último año de las instituciones de educación superior públicas de Ecuador, respaldados por un modelo extendido de la teoría del comportamiento planificado de Ajzen (1991). Los resultados se derivaron de un cuestionario dirigido a estudiantes del último semestre de las carreras con formación académica empresarial los cuales fueron sometidos a análisis de ecuaciones estructurales (MES). Los hallazgos mostraron que las competencias emocionales son factores significativos en la configuración de las intenciones emprendedoras y su relación directa y positiva con los antecedentes cognitivos de la actitud empresarial y a la autoeficacia. Se sugiere que los estudiantes con mayor grado de competencias emocionales enfrentan de mejor manera el sesgo cognitivo que puede dificultar el reconocimiento de oportunidades empresariales. La principal contribución de este estudio fue dar mayor generalidad a los resultados que se han obtenido en el uso de las competencias emocionales para fomentar la intencionalidad de emprendimiento en contextos de economías emergentes.

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Miao, Chao. "Individual Traits and Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Need for Cognition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3894.

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The field of entrepreneurship is rapidly advancing and matures as a discipline that receives substantial amount of attention. One popular area of research in the discipline of entrepreneurship is to investigate one’s intent to start a business, which is entrepreneurial intention. This is an important construct that warrants ongoing research because entrepreneurial intention is not only a great predictor of entrepreneurial behavior but also an important step in the process of becoming an entrepreneur. The present study, based on a sample of 321 subjects along with 264 observers, makes five contributions to the entrepreneurship literature. First, I examined the psychometric property of entrepreneurial take-over intention and found that it is a construct different from entrepreneurial start-up intention. Second, the results demonstrated that risk propensity and proactive personality are positive predictors of entrepreneurial start-up and take-over intentions, whereas cognitive ability is a negative predictor of entrepreneurial start-up and take-over intentions. Rebelliousness is a positive predictor of entrepreneurial take-over intention and also has an inverted U-shaped relationship with entrepreneurial take-over intention. Third, entrepreneurial self-efficacy mediates the relationship between three individual traits (i.e., emotional intelligence, risk propensity, and proactive personality) and entrepreneurial start-up and take-over intentions. Need for cognition mediates the relationship between two individual traits (i.e., cognitive ability and proactive personality) and entrepreneurial start-up intention. Fourth, 2D:4D ratio (a proxy measure for prenatal testosterone exposure level) negatively predicts risk propensity. There also exist two two-step mediations from 2D:4D ratio to both entrepreneurial start-up and take-over intentions through risk propensity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Fifth, the results suggest that observer ratings of individual traits only contribute modest incremental validity above and beyond self-reported ratings of them in predicting entrepreneurial start-up and take-over intentions. I discuss implications, limitations, and future directions informed by the present study.

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Stathis, Victoria L. "The Explanatory Relationship between Perceived Environmental Dynamism and Entrepreneurial Bricolage in U.S. Business Service Firms." Thesis, Capella University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13808404.

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This research study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial bricolage and environmental dynamism, contributing to the knowledge base of the resource-based theory. Specifically, this study examined the influence perceived environmental dynamism has on entrepreneurial bricolage while controlling for the firm’s annual revenue, number of employees, age, industry and business experience, and educational level. Prior research has identified firms with higher levels of entrepreneurial bricolage overcome resource limitations through innovation, a primary component of competitive advantage. Prior research has also identified firms that function efficiently in rapidly changing environments demonstrate stronger dynamic capabilities and higher levels of innovation. In addition, previous research has identified entrepreneurial bricolage and environmental dynamism, separately, positively impact innovation; however, no identified research has examined these constructs together within the parameters of this research study. This research study utilized multiple linear regression to analyze the data used to test the hypotheses related to the research questions. The primary research question examined in this study was to what extent does Environmental Dynamism Index (IV) explain variations in the Entrepreneurial Bricolage Index (DV), controlling for Annual Revenue (CV), Number of Employees (CV), Firm Age (CV), Industry Experience (CV), Business Experience (CV), and Education Level (CV). The population for this study included businesses located in the United States in the business services sector (SIC 73) with fewer than 100 employees and annual revenue below $5 million. Results identified perceived environmental dynamism was a statistically significant predictor of entrepreneurial bricolage; no statistically significant relationship was identified between all control variables (annual revenue, number of employees, firm age, business experience, and education level) and entrepreneurial bricolage. Findings of this study suggested that firms operating in environments of greater perceived environmental dynamism demonstrated greater use of entrepreneurial bricolage. This research study was limited in population and did not include all constructs of the Environmental Dynamism Scale; further research is recommended examining the relationship between environmental dynamism and entrepreneurial bricolage in various industries and cultures. In addition, future research is recommended examining these constructs using all constructs included in the Environmental Dynamism Scale.

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Izaias, Martins da Silva. "Entrepreneurial and innovative behavior in spanish smes: essays on profitability, growth and export intensity." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/117454.

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En esta tesis doctoral, presentamos tres estudios empíricos que tratan de responder a diferentes preguntas de investigación: (1) ¿Qué efecto tiene la orientación emprendedora sobre la rentabilidad financiera de las PYMEs? ¿La relación entre la orientación emprendedora y la rentabilidad financiera depende de la hostilidad del entorno operativo? (2) ¿Podría la utilización de las redes fortalecer la orientación emprendedora? ¿Qué efectos tienen el uso de la redes y la orientación emprendedora sobre el crecimiento de la PYMEs? y ¿Qué efecto tiene la capacidad de innovación sobre la propensión y la intensidad exportadora de la pequeña empresa? ¿La propensión a exportar impulsa la capacidad innovadora de la pequeña empresa? En consecuencia, nos basamos en diferentes perspectivas teóricas para desarrollar las hipótesis propuestas. Además, utilizamos varias técnicas de investigación para poner en prueba dichas hipótesis, tales como: regresión lineal, modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, regresión ordinal, regresión logística, etc. Los resultados confirman la mayoría de las relaciones propuestas. Finalmente, discutimos las implicaciones de nuestros hallazgos y proponemos futuras líneas de investigación.
In this doctoral dissertation, we address three research essays attempting to respond to different research questions: (1) What effect does entrepreneurial orientation have on SME profitability? Does the linkage between entrepreneurial orientation and profitability depend on environmental hostility? (2) Is networking the missing link in entrepreneurial orientation? Network usage and entrepreneurial orientation, what effects do they have on SME growth? and (3) What effect does innovativeness have on small business export? Does export propensity enhance the ability to innovate? Accordingly, we draw on various theoretical perspectives to develop hypotheses that propose entrepreneurial orientation, environmental hostility, firm networks, innovativeness and business performance. Several research techniques have been used to test these relationships, such as lineal regression, structural equation modeling, ordinal regression, logistic regression, etc. Findings confirm most of the proposed relationships. Lastly, implications and future research lines are discussed.

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Medeiros, Tiago César de Paiva. "Empreendedorismo e inovação : um estudo de caso múltiplo na indústria de software do Rio Grande do Norte." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/55125.

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O empreendedorismo tem despontado nas últimas décadas como um tema de vital relevância para a sociedade, dada sua estreita relação com a inovação e o desenvolvimento econômico. Nesse contexto, a indústria de Tecnologia da Informação, onde se destaca o software, apresenta um papel centralizador e essencial no que diz respeito à globalização, encurtando distâncias, maximizando o uso do tempo e coletivizando o conhecimento entre as pessoas. Assim, o presente trabalho visa entender qual a relação entre a Atitude Empreendedora, o Comportamento Empreendedor e a trajetória de inovações nos dois modelos centrais de empresas de software. Para tal, foi realizada uma pesquisa com 16 empresas divididas em duas etapas: a primeira quantitativa e exploratória e a segunda qualitativa via entrevista em profundidade com quatro gestores selecionados entre os participantes da primeira fase. Como principais resultados verificou-se que apesar de possuírem valores diferenciados para Atitude Empreendedora e Comportamento Empreendedor, as empresas analisadas apresentaram perfis e históricos semelhantes, diferindo basicamente no tocante aos motivos para a criação do negócio. Contudo, no que diz respeito aos modelos de negócio, constatou-se que a definição dos mesmos sofre influência da Atitude e do Comportamento Empreendedor, e essa relação direciona as inovações desenvolvidas pelas empresas ao longo do eixo que vai da inovação incremental à inovação radical. Verificou-se também que as empresas analisadas passaram por um momento de transição no tocante ao modelo de negócio, dado o aumento das pressões externas. A reação a essas pressões está possivelmente associada com o grau de escolaridade, de conhecimento sobre gestão, o tempo de existência da empresa e principalmente com a Atitude Empreendedora do gestor. Por fim, enfatiza-se que a influência de instituições de amparo ao empreendedor, tais como o SEBRAE, possui um caráter positivo no que diz respeito à estruturação das empresas nos seus primeiros anos de vida, no entanto em momentos de turbulência onde a reestruturação do negócio é necessária tais instituições apresentaram-se como influências negativas para as empresas.
Entrepreneurship has emerged in recent decades as an issue of vital importance to society, given its close relationship to innovation and economic development. In this context, the Information Technology industry, highlighting the software industry, features a centralized and critical role in regards to globalization, shortening distances, maximizing use of time and collectivize knowledge among people. Thus, this study aims to understand which is the relationship between Entrepreneurial Attitude, Entrepreneurial Behavior and trajectory of innovations in the two central models of software companies. For this, a survey was conducted with 16 companies divided into two stages: the first quantitative and exploratory and the second qualitative via in-depth interview with four managers selected among participants of the first phase. The main results showed that despite having different values for Entrepreneurial Attitude and Entrepreneurial Behavior, the companies analyzed showed histories and profiles similar differing primarily with regard to the reasons for the creation of the business. However, with regard to business models, it was found that the definition of those are influenced by the attitude and behavior of the entrepreneur, and this relationship drives the innovations developed by companies along the axis that goes from incremental innovation to radical innovation. It was also found that the analyzed companies have gone through a time of transition about to the business model, given the increasing external pressures. The reaction to these pressures is possibly associated with the degree of education, knowledge management, the lifetime of the company and especially with the manager of the Entrepreneurial Attitude. Finally, it emphasizes that the influence of institutions of support to entrepreneurs, such as SEBRAE, have a positive effect about to the structuring of the industry in its early years, however in times of turbulence where the restructuring of business is required such institutions were presented as negative influences on business.

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Sultana, Nahida, and Md Tazinur Rahman. "EXPLAINING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT IN SWEDEN BY MEANS OF THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-43398.

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The aim of this paper was to explore the factors behind the entrepreneurial intention (EI) building of international university students of Sweden. With the help of Ajzen’s (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior, this theory has been used by numerous researches to predict intentions, especially EI. However, in Sweden several studies have been done only on the Swedish students, but no study has done specifically on international students. A conceptual framework was developed for this study from Theory of Planned Behavior, where attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavior control (PBC) were main variables with several indicators of each, to explain what are affecting the most on international university students to build up EI. 18 interviewees of international students of Halmstad University of Sweden were taken. Furthermore, after analyzing their answers authors have found that three of those variables have almost similar effect on building the EI of international university students of Sweden, but not all of their indicators.

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Breugst, Nicola [Verfasser], Uwe Akademischer Betreuer] Cantner, David B. [Akademischer Betreuer] [Audretsch, and Holger [Akademischer Betreuer] Patzelt. "Entrepreneurial Behavior in Social Contexts : the Role of Families, Teams and Employees for Entrepreneurial Individuals / Nicola Breugst. Gutachter: Uwe Cantner ; David B. Audretsch ; Holger Patzelt." Jena : Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, 2011. http://d-nb.info/101797229X/34.

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Siman, Emilian. "Wealth accumulation differences between wage-earning and entrepreneurial families the role of active saving behavior /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5531.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
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Burtch, David Gordon. "An Empirical Examination of Factors Influencing Participant Behavior in Crowdfunded Markets." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/230239.

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Business Administration/Management Information Systems
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Crowdfunded marketplaces have recently emerged as a novel avenue for entrepreneurs to raise capital in support of innovative ideas and ventures. In these markets, any individual can propose a project, and interested others can contribute their funds to support it. The economic potential of these markets has recently become apparent and, as a result they have begun gaining significant attention from legislators and regulators, who see crowdfunding as a possible solution to the economic woes currently facing the country. However, the behavior of participants in these marketplaces, a key factor that must be accounted for in any effort to formulate policy or regulation, or to identify appropriate design practices, remains poorly understood, primarily due to the many novelties of crowdfunding. Bearing in mind the need to ensure crowdfunding's sustainability as an industry, the formulation of policy and regulation, as well as best practices for participants, I report on three empirical studies that seek to identify and quantify a variety of important aspects of, and influences upon, participant behavior in crowdfunded markets. These three studies, presented as separate essays herein, i) explore the influence upon subsequent contributors from social information about prior others' actions, ii) examine the frictions that arise due to cultural differences between and amongst users, and iii) assess crowdfunders' use of information-hiding mechanisms, and the subsequent impact on later contributors in the market. In regard to each, I discuss the relevant theory, the methodology, data sources, results and implications. I conclude by highlighting the contributions of my work, and possible avenues for future research.
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Rouveure, Thomas. "Vers une performance globale et durable de la micro-entreprise en phase de post-naissance – l’impact des compétences de l’entrepreneur." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3065/document.

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Les fondements de l’entrepreneuriat placent l’entrepreneur comme l’acteur incontournable du processus entrepreneurial : c’est lui qui impulse la saisie d’opportunités, qui crée et développe une organisation et qui favorise le degré d’innovation dans l’entreprise, pour espérer créer de la valeur (Aldrich, 2005 ; Verstraete & Fayolle, 2005). En raison de la forte diversité de ses champs d’actions, nous avons fait le choix de cibler spécifiquement notre recherche sur la micro-entreprise (MIC) à une période précise du processus de création : la post-naissance. Quelles sont les activités constitutives du rôle de l’entrepreneur et les difficultés qu’il rencontre dans son entreprise ? Pourquoi seulement 4% des entreprises pérennes à 5 ans créent des emplois (Taugourdeau & Verdier, 2013) ? Cette recherche répond à des enjeux socio-économiques tels que : susciter l’esprit d’entreprendre, créer les emplois de demain et accroître le dynamisme du tissu économique (Assises de l’entrepreneuriat, 2013).Le cadre théorique s’appuie sur trois théories qui, par leur complémentarité, offrent une perspective novatrice à cette recherche. A partir d’une approche structurée de la performance globale et durable de l’entreprise, issue de la Théorie Socio-Economique (TSE) (Savall, 1974 ; Savall & Zardet, 1987), nous proposons de construire une Architecture Dysfonctionnelle de la Micro-Entreprise (ADME) qui permet une analyse approfondie de son environnement interne. Par la suite, nous l’expérimentons et mesurons les répercussions financières des dysfonctionnements pour ces MIC. La TSE, par sa méthodologie d’intervention, ambitionne une volonté de changement dans l’entreprise et révèle le besoin de développement de compétences et d’évolution des comportements professionnels (Savall et al., 2015). Ainsi, nous nous rapprochons du champ de la cognition entrepreneuriale, observé à partir de la notion d’ « attitude ». Ces attitudes, accumulées, forment notre conception de la Configuration Stratégique Cognitive de l’Entrepreneur (CSCE), inspirée de la Théorie du Comportement Planifié (TCP) (Ajzen, 1987, 1991), puis élargie à partir du champ de la cognition entrepreneuriale (Grazzini & Boissin, 2013; Mitchell et al., 2002, 2007;Shapero & Sokol, 1982).La CSCE offre un approfondissement sur les structures de croyances à partir desquelles l’entrepreneur prend ses décisions et agit (Grazzini & Boissin, 2013). Elle permet d’expliquer dans quelle mesure l’intervention socio-économique agit sur l’intention de changement, puis, sur le comportement de l’entrepreneur. Par ailleurs, une relation peut se tisser entre la TCP et l’approche par les compétences à partir des attitudes de l’entrepreneur. La théorie de la compétence, adaptée au champ de l’entrepreneuriat (Bird, 1995 ; Chandler & Jansen, 1992 ; Lans et al., 2010 ; Man & Lau, 2000 ; Toutain & Fayolle, 2008), reconnaît le tryptique :connaissance (savoir), pratiques (savoir-faire) et attitudes (savoir-être). La CSCE peut représenter un cadre d’analyse du savoir-être qui approfondit les caractéristiques d’influence d’actions de l’entrepreneur. Enfin, la relation établie avec la TSE est proposée à partir du modèle de coût-valeur des activités (Savall & Zardet, 2008) qui connecte la compétence à une activité. Nous proposons et expérimentons la nomenclature d’activités de l’entrepreneur, représentative des pratiques et savoirs qui lui sont nécessaires, tous intégrés dans trois rôles : entrepreneurial, gestionnaire et technico-fonctionnel (Chandler & Jansen, 1992).La recherche empirique s’est déroulée en deux étapes. La première étape, exploratoire, comprend 43 répondants, acteurs divers de l’entrepreneuriat. La seconde est une recherche-intervention menée auprès de 16 MIC en phase de post-naissance. Ainsi, la problématique centrale de cette recherche est la suivante: Comment instaurer une méthodologie d’accompagnement visant à modifier l’intention de l’entrepreneur quant aux actions qu’il réalise dans son entreprise?
Foundations in entrepreneurship place the entrepreneur as the essential actor in the entrepreneurial process: he is the one who promotes the identification of opportunities, creates and develops an organization and promotes the degree of innovation in the company, hoping to create the value (Aldrich, 2005 ; Verstraete & Fayolle, 2005). Due to the wide diversity of its action fields, we have chosen to specifically target our micro-enterprise research (MIC) at a specific time in the creative process: post-birth. What activities constitute the role of the entrepreneur and the difficulties he encounters in his business? Why only 4% of 5-year-old companies create jobs (Taugourdeau & Verdier, 2013)? This research responds to socio-economic issues such as: fostering the entrepreneurial spirit, creating the jobs of tomorrow and increasing the dynamism of the economic fabric (Assises de l’entrepreneuriat, 2013).The theoretical framework is based on three theories which, by their complementarity, offer an innovative perspective to this research. Based on a structured approach to the overall and sustainable performance of the company, based on Socio-Economic Theory (TSE) (Savall, 1974 ; Savall & Zardet, 1987), we propose to construct a Dysfunctional Architecture Micro-Enterprise (ADME), which allows a thorough analysis of its internal environment. We then experiment and measure the malfunctioning financial implications of these MICs. The TSE, through its intervention methodology, aims at a wish for change in the company and reveals the need for skills development and changes in professional behavior (Savall et al., 2015). Thus, we approach the field of entrepreneurial cognition, observed from the notion of "attitude". The set of different kinds of attitudes can form our conception of the Cognitive Strategic Configuration of the Entrepreneur (CSCE), inspired by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TCP) (Ajzen, 1987, 1991) and then expanded from the field of entrepreneurial cognition (Grazzini & Boissin, 2013 ; Mitchell et al., 2002, 2007 ; Shapero & Sokol, 1982). The CSCE offers a deeper insight into the belief structures from which the entrepreneur takes decisions and acts (Grazzini & Boissin, 2013). It explains the extent to which socio-economic intervention influences the intention of change and then the entrepreneur behavior. In addition, a relationship can be forged between the TCP and the competency approach based on the entrepreneur's attitudes. The theory of competence, adapted to the field of entrepreneurship (Bird, 1995 ; Chandler & Jansen 1992;Lans et al., 2010;Man & Lau 2000 ; Toutain & Fayolle, 2008) recognizes the tripod: knowledge, practices (know-how) and attitudes. The CSCE can represent a know-how analysis framework that deepens the characteristics that can influence the entrepreneurial actions. Finally, the relation established with the TSE is proposed on the basis of the cost-value activities model (Savall & Zardet, 2008) which connects competence to an activity. We propose and experiment the entrepreneurial activities nomenclature, representative of the practices and knowledge which are necessary for the entrepreneurial process, all integrated into three roles: entrepreneurial, managerial and technical-functional (Chandler & Jansen, 1992).Empirical research was conducted in two stages. The first stage, exploratory, comprises 43 people interviewed, different actors of entrepreneurship. The second is an intervention–research with 16 MICs in the post-birth phase. Thus, the research central problem was: How to implement a methodology of accompanying to modify the intention of the entrepreneur with the actions that he carry out in the company?

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Donbesuur, Francis. "A model of entrepreneurial opportunity-seeking behavior : an investigation into its antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22512/.

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Recent scholarly works in entrepreneurial opportunities have shifted towards the two main sources of opportunities - opportunity creation and discovery. Whilst some school of thoughts argue for the subjective nature of opportunities, others believe that entrepreneurial opportunities are objective. Despite an increase in research into the two views of entrepreneurial opportunities and most importantly, the potential contribution this debate brings to the entrepreneurship literature, a careful look at the current discourse in the extant literature points to several and important research gaps. Specifically, knowledge is lacking on the conceptual domain and empirical validation of these two sources of opportunities and their driving forces on the one hand, and how they both simultaneously and/or differentially impact on new venture performance on the other hand. Drawing from the literature on cognitive psychology and strategic management, this study proposes and tests a framework of entrepreneurial opportunity-seeking behavior, its antecedents, and performance outcomes and associated boundary conditions using a sample of new ventures a developing economy. First, empirical analysis shows that opportunities can occur as subjective and objective phenomena in the firm and that entrepreneurs can engage in them distinctively and in a non-contradictory way. Second, the findings indicate that entrepreneurial cognitive style drives both opportunity creation and discovery. Third, the study shows that opportunity creation and discovery have differential implications for new venture performance. Thus, while opportunity creation positively impacts on the performance of new ventures, opportunity discovery has no effect on new venture performance. Fourth, an analysis into the boundary condition effects shows that firms' dynamic capabilities, to some extent, moderate the opportunity creation/discovery - new venture performance relationships. Finally, by using a developing economy as a study setting, this research contributes to an important but rarely discussed context as far as the study and practice of entrepreneurship is concerned. The implications of such findings for the theory and practice of entrepreneurship are discussed, while providing valuable avenues for future research.

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Bertolino, Cristiane Silva Penteado. "Comportamento empreendedor dos alunos em uma instituição de ensino superior." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1094.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the entrepreneurial behavior of students of a private Higher Education institution (HEI), located in the city of São Paulo, with the porpoise of developing teaching methods that encourage entrepreneurship in all training courses. Researches indicate that some common behaviors among entrepreneurs contribute to the success of the entrepreneurial action. This research is a case study has a quantitative and qualitative nature that, through documentary survey, direct observation of practices and a questionnaire developed by McClelland (1972) and improved by Cooley (1991), aims to identify the presence of entrepreneurial behaviors in students of the HEI, object of this study. The survey results identified the persuasion behaviors and contact networks and take calculated risks had the lowest score which reinforces the need to develop relational skills in students to stimulate the expansion of the contact network. The existence of networks implies the expansion of available tangible and intangible resources. Offering features that go beyond the individual, it could cause the evolution of the behavior take moderate risks . Grouping behaviors in the clusters achievement , planning and power showed higher scores on planning . A principle of entrepreneurship is the partnership that is inserted into the set power that scored less, reiterating the need of teaching methods enhancing the networking
A finalidade desta dissertação é identificar os comportamentos empreendedores dos alunos de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior (IES) privada, localizada no município de São Paulo, que se propõe a desenvolver métodos de ensino que estimulem o empreendedorismo em todos os cursos de formação. Pesquisas indicam que alguns comportamentos comuns entre empreendedores contribuem para o êxito da ação empreendedora. Esta pesquisa é um estudo de caso de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa que, através de levantamento documental, observação direta de práticas e aplicação de um questionário desenvolvido por McClelland (1972) e aperfeiçoado por Cooley (1991), visa identificar a presença de comportamentos empreendedores nos alunos das IES, objeto deste estudo. Os resultados da pesquisa identificaram que os comportamentos persuasão e redes de contato e correr riscos calculados apresentaram a menor pontuação o que reforça a necessidade de desenvolver habilidades relacionais nos alunos para estimular a ampliação da rede de contatos. A existência das redes implica na ampliação dos recursos disponíveis, tangíveis e intangíveis. Dispondo de recursos que vão além do individual poderá haver evolução do comportamento correr riscos calculados . O agrupamento dos comportamentos nos conjuntos realização , planejamento e poder demonstrou pontuação mais elevada no planejamento . Um princípio do empreendedorismo é a parceria, que está inserido no conjunto poder que obteve menor pontuação, reiterando a necessidade de metodologias de ensino que valorizem a articulação em rede

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Simmons, John D. Jr. "The Effects of Firm Size on the Entrepreneurial Orientation Dimensions of Innovativeness, Proactiveness, and Risk-Taking." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275870430.

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Lorentz, Marcia Helena do Nascimento. "O comportamento empreendedor de diretores da UFSM e sua percepção quanto à universidade empreendedora." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2015. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4737.

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Since its inception, in the eleventh century, the university was born with the primary mission of teaching, adding over time, research and extension. Are currently being investigated by several researchers incorporating the economic and social development as a new mission in IFES, showing that institutional perspective, in which the elements of the old model are retained and processed, generating actions and entrepreneurial attitudes in the university, to promote and coordinate interaction "entrepreneurial university", establishing strategies for joint teaching, research and extension with society. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the entrepreneurial behavior of teaching units of directors of UFSM and its influence on perception of the entrepreneurial university. It was adopted as the research method qualitative approach, exploratory, based on empirical research. The units of analysis were the directors of teaching units UFSM. Data were analyzed using content analysis technique, categorical, enunciation and lexicométrica, and the analysis of categories defined a priori and not a priori (Bardin, 2011). The a priori categories - opportunities and initiative, planning and take calculated risks (McClelland, 1972); and economic and social development, junior company and interaction with the community (Guaranys, 2010) were defined based on the theoretical framework and the aim of this study; and the category does not a priori - structure and management of people - emerged from the speech of respondents. In addition, it was used as a secondary source to Self Assessment Research Institutional 2014 / UFSM, in order to contribute as "adjunct" to analyze the results of illustrative discussion of the results in this study. The entrepreneurial characteristic opportunities and initiative was the one that stood out as the main feature of the respondents; followed by the feature planning and take calculated risks, which were matched. As for the category structure and personnel management, it was emphasized by the majority of respondents, of which it is positioned in a similar way as the observations and findings on matters involving these two aspects. As the interviewees' perceptions about entrepreneurial university, the aspect that proved better understood was the interaction with the community, followed by the junior company of understanding and finally, economic and social development, as being the least understood by respondents. In order to meet the objective of the study - to examine the entrepreneurial behavior of teaching units of directors of UFSM and its influence on the perception of the entrepreneurial university - it was concluded that the entrepreneurial behavior of these directly influence their perception of the entrepreneurial university.
Desde a sua criação, no século XI, a universidade nasceu com a missão precípua do ensino, agregando ao longo do tempo, a pesquisa e a extensão. Atualmente vem sendo investigado por vários pesquisadores a incorporação do desenvolvimento econômico e social como uma nova missão nas IFES, evidenciando outra perspectiva institucional, na qual os elementos do modelo antigo são retidos e transformados, gerando ações e atitudes empreendedoras na universidade, para promover e coordenar a interação universidade empreendedora , estabelecendo estratégias para articular ensino, pesquisa e extensão com a sociedade. Nesse sentido, este estudo teve como objetivo analisar o comportamento empreendedor de diretores de unidades de ensino da UFSM e sua influência na percepção quanto à universidade empreendedora. Adotou-se como método de pesquisa a abordagem qualitativa, do tipo exploratório, baseado em pesquisa empírica. As unidades de análise foram os diretores de unidades de ensino da UFSM. Os dados foram analisados utilizando a técnica de análise de conteúdo, categorial, enunciação e lexicométrica, sendo as categorias de análise definidas a priori e não a priori (BARDIN, 2011). As categorias a priori oportunidades e iniciativa, planejamento e assumir riscos calculados (MCCLELLAND, 1972); e, desenvolvimento econômico e social, empresa júnior e interação com a comunidade (GUARANYS, 2010) foram definidas com base no referencial teórico e no objetivo deste estudo; e a categoria não a priori estrutura e gestão de pessoas emergiu da fala dos entrevistados. Além disso, utilizou-se como fonte secundária a Pesquisa de Autoavaliação Institucional 2014/UFSM, no intuito de contribuir como coadjuvante para análise dos resultados encontrados, de caráter ilustrativo na discussão dos resultados neste estudo. A característica empreendedora oportunidades e iniciativa foi a que mais se destacou, como a característica principal dos entrevistados; seguida pela característica planejamento e assumir riscos calculados, que ficaram igualadas. Quanto à categoria estrutura e gestão de pessoas, a mesma foi ressaltada pela maioria dos entrevistados, nos quais se posicionaram de forma semelhante quanto às observações e constatações acerca dos assuntos que envolvem esses dois aspectos. Quanto à percepção dos entrevistados acerca de universidade empreendedora, o aspecto que se mostrou melhor compreendido foi a interação com a comunidade, seguido pelo entendimento de empresa júnior e por fim, desenvolvimento econômico e social, como sendo o menos compreendido pelos entrevistados. De modo a responder o objetivo do estudo analisar o comportamento empreendedor de diretores de unidades de ensino da UFSM e sua influência na percepção quanto à universidade empreendedora se concluiu que o comportamento empreendedor dos mesmos influenciam diretamente na sua percepção quanto à universidade empreendedora.

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Kyser, Diana. "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/436065.

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Business Administration/Entrepreneurship
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This dissertation explores the connection between founder personality and organizational culture in founder-led entrepreneurial companies. With a focus on how founder personality affects culture, it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational psychology – notably the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA: Schneider, 1987) and Person-Organization fit (P-O: O'Reilly, Chatman, & Caldwell, 1991) theories. Using a combination of ethnographic, psychological and organizational data from the founders and employees of four small firms from multiple industries, and a broader survey study of 336 respondents from 23 firms, it finds support for O’Reilly et al., (2014)’s CEO Personality-Culture link in the small-company setting. It also validates two new findings: 1) that employee personality traits can trump founder personality as an influence on culture, and 2) that founder involvement can moderate the impact of founder personality on culture. The dissertation concludes with plans for further research into the personality-organizational culture effects and thoughts about the applicability of these results for founders and consultants.
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Adam, Anne-Flore. "De l’intention au comportement entrepreneurial : dans quelles mesures les notions d’engagement et d’intention planifiée peuvent-elles faciliter le passage à l’acte ?" Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAG001/document.

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Dans le but de comprendre ce qui pousse les entrepreneurs à agir, les chercheurs en entrepreneuriat utilisent depuis des décennies les modèles de l’intention dans leurs études. Les plus célèbres sont la Théorie de l’Action Planifiée d’Azjen et l’Evènement Entrepreneurial de Shapero et Sokol. Cependant, ces modèles restent perfectibles. En effet, ils partent du principe que l’intention est un bon prédicateur du comportement, alors que seules moins de la moitié des variations des comportements entrepreneuriaux sont explicables par l’intention. De plus, les modèles de l’intention se concentrent uniquement sur les antécédents de l’intention. La partie motivationnelle (le « pourquoi ») est donc couverte, mais la partie volitionnelle (le « comment ») est oubliée.Notre thèse, qui se compose de quatre travaux, a pour ambition de parer à ce manquement, dans le but de parfaire notre compréhension du processus entrepreneurial. Notre objectif est de mettre en lumière des facilitateurs qui permettraient de passer effectivement de l’intention à l’action. Nous relevons donc le défi de dévoiler en partie la boîte noire qui se trouve entre intention et comportement entrepreneurial. Nous avons sélectionné l’engagement et l’intention planifiée dans la littérature de socio-psychologie comme étant les chaînons manquants possibles, et nous les avons testés en contextes entrepreneuriaux.Ainsi, en se concentrant sur la partie volitionnelle, notre thèse complète les modèles de l’intention dans le but d’améliorer nos connaissances du processus entrepreneurial. Elle vise à servir les porteurs de projets, les politiques, les enseignants et les différents acteurs de suivi des entrepreneurs. En effet, tous peuvent utiliser ce que nous avons mis en lumière pour augmenter le taux de conversion de l’intention entrepreneuriale. Notre objectif est de manière générale de proposer de la matière nouvelle pour aider les porteurs de projets à concrétiser leurs intentions.Cependant, la taille de nos échantillons limite nos études empiriques à des études exploratoires. Nos résultats devront maintenant être confirmés de manière quantitative
In order to understand what leads individuals to create new ventures, entrepreneurship researchers use intention models in their studies for decades. The most famous are the Theory of Planned Behavior of Azjen and the Entrepreneurial Event of Shapero and Sokol. However, these models are still perfectible. In fact, they stem from the fact that intentions predict behaviors, but only less than half of variance of entrepreneurial behaviors is explained by intention. Moreover, intention models only focus on the antecedents of intention. So the motivational part (why one acts) is addressed, but the volitional part (how to pursue actions) remains set aside.Our thesis, composed of four pieces of work, aims at addressing this gap in order to improve our understanding of the entrepreneurial process. Our objective is to shed light on facilitators that can lead from intentions to effective action. We thus took on the challenge of unveiling part of the missing links between entrepreneurial intention and behavior. We selected commitment and implementation intention in the socio-psychological literature as being the possible missing links, and we test them in entrepreneurial contexts.Thus by focusing on the volitional part, our thesis completes the intention models in order to improve our knowledge of the entrepreneurial process. It has implications for intended entrepreneurs themselves, politicians, educators and incubators. Indeed, they could use what we have learnt about commitment and implementation intention to enhance the entrepreneurial intention conversion rate. Generally speaking, our goal is to propose new materials to help intended entrepreneurs to enact their intentions.However, the size of our samples limits our empirical studies to exploratory papers. Further researches should now test our findings quantitatively

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Bolin, Stacey. "Behaviors Contributing to Native American Business Success." ScholarWorks, 2015. http://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1672.

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Native Americans start fewer businesses than do other U.S. populations, and the receipts and employment of those businesses are 70% lower than the U.S. average. However, little knowledge exists concerning Native American (NA) business success. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the likelihood that attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control predict business success amongst NA business owners. Understanding the factors that contribute to NA business success is imperative to developing best practices for business owners and business support agencies. The theory of planned behavior served as the theoretical framework for this study. Of the 550 invited NA business owners registered within a single tribe in the South Central United States, 79 participated in this study. A binary logistic regression analysis produced conflicting results: significant goodness-of-fit yet insignificant individual predictors. Information obtained from this study could assist NA and other underdeveloped business populations with understanding factors influencing entrepreneurial endeavors; however, readers must interpret findings with caution because of conflicting logistic regression results. NA business formation and success could enhance economic prosperity and decrease unemployment in NA communities.

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Boas, Eduardo Pinto Vilas. "O comportamento do empreendedor e suas influências no processo de criação e no desempenho da empresa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-23062015-081259/.

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O objetivo desta tese foi verificar se o perfil do empreendedor e seu respectivo comportamento durante o processo empreendedor (processo de criação da empresa) influenciavam o desempenho da empresa criada. Para viabilizar o alcance do seu objetivo, inicialmente verificou-se o tipo de perfil e o respectivo tipo de comportamento predominantes na amostra analisada. O método principal utilizado na pesquisa é descritivo, sendo esta preponderantemente quantitativa. O perfil empreendedor foi medido com o instrumento proposto por McClelland (1987) e o comportamento do empreendedor foi medido por um instrumento criado e proposto pelo autor, visando entender o comportamento explicitado durante a criação da empresa, entre dois extremos, o causal e o effectual. Para identificar o conjunto de características mais presentes no perfil e o comportamento predominante em cada atividade do processo empreendedor foram utilizadas estatísticas descritivas. Na sequência, a análise de clusters foi realizada para identificar a existência de diferentes tipos de comportamento empreendedor. No entanto, para atingir o principal objetivo a técnica utilizada foi a modelagem de equações estruturais, mais especificamente o método de partial least square (PLS-SEM). Os dados foram coletados por meio de um questionário auto-administrado enviado por meio eletrônico para mais de 100.000 pessoas cadastradas em um dos principais sítios brasileiros de auxílio a empreendedores, dos quais 467 retornaram e 457 foram aproveitados após análise de outliers uni e multi variados. Os resultados revelaram que o perfil empreendedor tinha maior ocorrência de características do grupo de planejamento, seguido pelo grupo de realização e depois pelo poder. Também revelaram que o comportamento geral dos empreendedores é mais causal do que effectual, sendo que dezesseis atividades são realizadas com ênfase causal e apenas dez com ênfase effectual. Esse achado diverge da teoria recente do comportamento empreendedor que propõe a prevalência do comportamento effectual. Ainda em relação ao comportamento do empreendedor verificou-se a existência de três tipos distintos de comportamento, um comportamento mais causal (age de forma precavida, com planejamento prévio de suas ações), um comportamento intermediário (alterna a forma de agir entre planejamento prévio e ação não precedida de planejamento) e um comportamento mais effectual (age sem planejamento e posteriormente enfrenta as possíveis consequências). Um achado do estudo em relação aos tipos de comportamento foi constatar que os empreendedores modificam o seu padrão de comportamento ao longo do processo, sendo que os empreendedores que iniciam o processo de maneira mais causal tendem a ser menos causais conforme o seu avanço e os empreendedores que iniciam effectuais, tendem a ser menos effectuais ao longo do processo. Finalmente, respondendo ao objetivo principal da tese, relacionando o perfil, comportamento e desempenho, é possível afirmar que tanto o perfil quanto o comportamento influenciaram o desempenho da empresa criada. O comportamento demonstrou capacidade de exercer maior influência do que o perfil, especialmente o comportamento com ênfase causal. Foi verificado também que o modelo apresentado é mais adequado aos empreendedores do setor de comércio tradicional do que ao setor de serviços.
The purpose of the thesis is to verify whether the profile of the entrepreneur and his behavior during the entrepreneurial process (the creation of a company) influence the performance of the company created. In order to enable the scope of such purpose, there were initially verified the type of profile and the correspondent type of behavior predominant in the sample analyzed. The main method used on the research is descriptive, being the research predominantly quantitative. The entrepreneurial profile was measured by the instrument proposed by McClelland (1987) and the behavior of the entrepreneur was measured by an instrument created and proposed by the author of this thesis, aiming to understand the behavior shown during the creation of the company, between two extremes, the causal and the effectual. In order to identify the group of characteristics predominant in the profile and the predominant behavior in each activity of the entrepreneurial process, there were used descriptive statistics. Following that, the analysis of clusters was made to identify the existence of different types of entrepreneurial behavior. However, in order to achieve the main purpose, the technique used was the structural equation modeling, more specifically the partial least square (PLS-SEM) method. The data were collected through a self-administrated questionnaire sent electronically to more than 100.000 people registered on one of the Brazilian main websites of support to entrepreneurs, 467 of which have returned and 457 were used after analysis of uni and multivariate outliers. The results revealed that the entrepreneurial profile presented more of the planning group characteristics, followed by the achievement group and, after that, by the power one. They also revealed that the general behavior of the entrepreneurs is more causal than effectual: sixteen activities are carried out with causal emphasis and only ten with effectual emphasis. These finding differs from the recent theory of the entrepreneurial behavior that proposes the prevalence of the effectual behavior. Still regarding the behavior of the entrepreneur, it was verified the existence of three different types of behavior, one that is more causal (acts on a cautious way, with previous planning of actions), one intermediate behavior (varies the behavior between acting with previous planning and without previous planning) and one more effectual behavior (acts without planning and, afterward, faces possible consequences). One finding of the study, regarding the types of behavior, was to note that entrepreneurs change their pattern of behavior along the process: entrepreneurs that begin the process on a more causal way tend to be less causal as they advance and the entrepreneurs that begin effectual tend to be less effectual along the process. Finally, answering to the main purpose of the thesis, relating profile, behavior and performance, it is possible to affirm that both profile and behavior influence the performance of the company created. It was demonstrated that behavior may exercise greater influence than the profile, especially the behavior with causal emphasis. It was also verified that the model presented suits better to entrepreneurs of the traditional commerce sector than to those from services\' sector.

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Ajiboye, Shola. "Designing the Framework of Entrepreneurial Relationship Management (ERM) for Strategic Actions and Effective Decision-Making." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case155429869587576.

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Stevens, Christopher E. "SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND EARNED INCOME OPPORTUNITIES: AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IN PREDICTING ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION AMONG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1213790396.

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Tesse, Ernest. "Culture entrepreneuriale, performance socio-économique et modélisation empirique des comportements socioculturels sur les intentions d’entreprendre en Haïti." Thesis, Antilles, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ANTI0263/document.

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L’entrepreneuriat a été très longtemps reposé sur les seuls facteurs économiques, comme la recherche et le développement (R&D), les innovations, les infrastructures adéquates, les nouvelles technologies appliquées, un système bancaire efficace, etc. Pourtant, d’autres facteurs s’avèrent encore plus importants lorsqu’il s’agit surtout de chercher à comprendre les dimensions qui sont intrinsèquement pertinentes dans les prises de décisions entrepreneuriales. Parmi ces facteurs, la culture occupe une place centrale qu’on ne peut en aucun cas occulter. En effet, grâce à certains traits culturels qui caractérisent positivement le comportement de leurs peuples, beaucoup de pays ont vu développer leurs économies. Alors que d’autres traits culturels, au lieu d’être prometteurs, constituent plutôt des handicaps au développement économique des pays dits sous-développés. Ceux qui ont une culture négro-africaine semblent les plus touchés. Haïti est l’un des pays de l’hémisphère occidental, plus précisément du bassin caribéen, qui semblent aussi faire partie de cette catégorie, par l’intermédiaire de certains traits culturels négro-africains qui lui sont légués en héritage pendant toute la période coloniale. Tout ceci a été antérieurement prouvé par un ensemble de travaux de recherche théoriques et empiriques. Cependant, dans le but d’apporter quelques éclairages nécessaires aux résultats de ces travaux et surtout d’approfondir notre champ de recherche sous les prismes de la performance globale et du développement socio-économique durable d’Haïti, cette présente thèse se donne plutôt pour objectif principal de tenter de modéliser empiriquement les comportements socioculturels de l’entrepreneuriat haïtien. Dans ce sens, elle cherche à construire un modèle conceptuel théorique de référence qui peut nous permettre de vérifier statistiquement et économétriquement l’influence de certains facteurs socioculturels sur les intentions des actifs entrepreneurs et non-entrepreneurs haïtiens de créer à court terme une entreprise ou de se lancer sur le moyen terme ou sur le long terme dans un projet à caractère entrepreneurial dans leur propre département de naissance
During a very long time Entrepreneurship was based solely on economic factors such as research and development (R&D), innovations, appropriate infrastructures, new applied technologies, an efficient banking system, and so on. Yet other factors are even more important when it comes to understanding the dimensions which are intrinsically relevant to entrepreneurial decision-making. And among them culture occupies a central place which cannot be overshadowed. Indeed, while some populations’cultural traits positively characterize their behavior and thus would play a role in their countries’ economic development, other cultural traits, instead of being promising, rather consist in handicaps to the economic growth of so-called underdeveloped countries. In this category, those with Black African culture seem to be the most affected. Haiti is one of the countries of the Western Hemisphere, more precisely of the Caribbean basin, which seem to be part of this category, from the black-African cultural traits which are bequeathed to it during the whole colonial period. All this was previously proved by a set of theoretical and empirical research works. However, in order to bring some necessary insights to the results of this work and especially to broaden our field of research in terms of performance and sustainable socio-economic development of Haiti, this thesis aims rather to try to empirically model the sociocutural behaviors of Haitian entrepreneuriat. In this sense, she’s looking to build an theorical reference model which can enable us to statistically and econometrically verify the influence of sociocultural behaviors on he intentions of entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial Haitian assets to create a company in the short term or to embark on a medium-term or long-term project in an entrepreneurial project in their own birth region

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Machado, M?rcio Roberto Loiola. "Educa??o do empreendedorismo: um estudo em institui??o de ensino superior." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2006. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/15062.

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This Thesis deals with entrepreneurship on higher education undergraduate programs. The main objective is investigating the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in terms of entrepreneurial attitudes and behavior. The study is done on a University that has an entrepreneurship education program on a Business Management undergraduate program. It is conducted a survey using a questionnaire on the Business Management undergraduate students resulting in a random stratified sample of 264 students. The entrepreneurial attitudes variables used are those found on the entrepreneurship literature. The entrepreneurial behavior variables are typical entrepreneurial situations like a decision on how to apply money and if the student would leave a good job to open his or her own company. It is applied multiple regression, cluster, bivariate and chi-square analysis. The main findings are first that it was not found a strong relationship between the entrepreneurial attitudes variables found on the entrepreneurship literature and the behavior situation proposed, with a multiple regression adjusted r2 = 0,30. Second, there is no statistically significant difference among the students comparing different years of the undergraduate program. Finally, the entrepreneurship education in this research appears to be effective in change attitudes toward entrepreneurship but not in changing entrepreneurial behavior. The main theoretical implication is that the entrepreneurship education on higher education level could be effective to change attitudes but changing behavior could goes beyond the possibilities of education on a usual university environment
Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar a efic?cia da introdu??o de educa??o do empreendedorismo, em n?vel universit?rio, a partir dos fatores que definem o perfil empreendedor em termos de atitude e comportamento. O estudo ? realizado em estudantes de uma Universidade que tem um programa de educa??o do empreendedorismo em um curso universit?rio de Administra??o de Empresas. Na pesquisa ? aplicado um question?rio aos estudantes universit?rios de Administra??o de empresas que resulta em uma amostra aleat?ria e estratificada composta com 264 estudantes. As vari?veis de atitudes empreendedoras usadas foram extra?das da literatura sobre o empreendedorismo. As vari?veis de comportamento empreendedor, s?o situa??es empresariais t?picas como, uma decis?o em como aplicar dinheiro e, se o estudante deixaria um bom trabalho para abrir o seu pr?prio neg?cio. ? aplicada a regress?o m?ltipla, agrupamento, bivariada e an?lise qui-quadrado. Quanto aos resultados, primeiro n?o foi identificado uma rela??o forte entre atitudes encontradas na literatura e situa??es de comportamento propostas, com regress?o m?ltipla igual a r2 = 0,30. Segundo, n?o h? diferen?as significativas entre os alunos dos diversos anos do programa universit?rio. Finalmente, a educa??o empreendedora parece ter efeito em mudan?as de atitude empreendedoras, m?s n?o na mudan?a de comportamento empreendedor. A principal implica??o te?rica ? que a educa??o do empreendedorismo, em n?vel de ensino superior, pode ser eficaz para mudar atitudes, m?s, quanto ao comportamento, pode ir al?m das possibilidades de uma educa??o em um ambiente universit?rio habitual

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Nguyen, Cuong. "Three essays on antecedents and determinants of entrepreuneurial intention among business students in Vietnam : toward an integrated theory." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01E069.

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La question de recherche de cette thèse est : « Quels sont les déterminants intrinsèques et extrinsèques impactant la décision de devenir entrepreneurs (intention et mise en oeuvre) chez les étudiants en gestion au Vietnam ? ». Cette thèse comprend trois essais qui appliquent une approche de méthodes mixtes séquentielles. La structure de cette thèse comprend une boucle d'analyse quantitative pour trois essais et une boucle d'analyse qualitative pour le dernier essai. Le premier essai comprend deux parties. Partie IA : Cette partie examine l'intention entrepreneuriale des étudiants en commerce au Vietnam en appliquant la théorie du comportement planifié (Ajzen, 1991). Partie IB : cette partie est consacrée à l’étude de l'intention chez les étudiants en commerce international dans le contexte vietnamien au moment où le pays devient membre du Partenariat transpacifique (TPP), maintenant appelé Accord global et progressif pour le partenariat transpacifique (CPTPP).Le deuxième essai examine l’impact des facteurs démographiques, l’exposition antérieure au travail indépendant et les antécédents familiaux sur l’esprit d’entreprise des étudiants en commerce vietnamiens. Le troisième essai est une étude qualitative des facteurs qui influencent les intentions d’entreprendre des étudiants en gestion et des propriétaires de petites entreprises. En résumé, des recommandations pour les décideurs politiques et les éducateurs en entrepreneuriat sont discutées
The research question of this thesis: “ What intrinsic and extrinsic determinants impact upon the decision (intent and agency) of business students in Vietnam to become entrepreneurs? ". This thesis includes three essays which apply a sequential mixed-methods approach. The structure of this thesis includes a loop of quantitative analysis for three essays and a loop of qualitative analysis for the last essay. The first essay consists of two parts: part I-A and part I-B. Part I-A essay investigates the entrepreneurial intention among business students in Vietnam by applying the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) (Ajzen, 1991). Part I-B essay investigates the entrepreneurial intention among international business students in Vietnamese business context as the country becomes a member of The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and now it is so-called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The second essay investigates the impact of demographic factors, prior exposure to self-employment and family background on the entrepreneurial intention of Vietnamese business students. The third essay is a qualitative study of factors that influence entrepreneurial intentions among business students and small business owners. In summary, recommendations for entrepreneurial policy makers and entrepreneurial educators are discussed

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Vale, Rosiane Rocha do. "Avaliação institucional: um olhar sobre o processo de autoavaliação e sua relação com o comportamento empreendedor em uma IFES." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2014. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4716.

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Evaluation in Higher Education Institutions in Brazil has gotten an important role in recent decades, and with the National Evaluation System of Higher Education Institutions SINAES, institutions have consolidated the evaluation model aiming at improving quality in higher education. The study was conducted with the objective of analyzing the managers of the Universidade Federal do Maranhão - UFMA perception of the institutional self-evaluation process, and its influence on entrepreneurial behavior in relation to this process. We used a mixed method, quantitative and qualitative, of exploratory type, and as research strategy, we used case study. For quantitative approach, McClelland s questionnaires about entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics were used aiming to identify entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics of the managers involved in the self-evaluation process. Forty-two managers, the coordinators of graduation courses and the academic centers directors participated in the study. Data were statistically analyzed with SPSS software version 18.0. Instrument s internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach's Alpha coefficient (0.88), attesting reliability and evaluation of the constructs. The found results verified that, on the profile characterization, there was a higher frequency of females; that the majority of respondents are aged 34-41; and that eight academic centers have participated in the survey, and that among them CCH and CCSO have obtained the higher respondents rates. Regarding graduation degrees, there were mainly doctors in management positions (61.9%) and most of them are in the institution for less than seven years. Regarding their involvement in the self-evaluation process, 52.4% are not involved in this process. The ten entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics have obtained medium and high intensity levels, among which we can highlight information searching that obtained 97.6%. From the entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics grouping, overall achievement group has obtained 90.5%; the planning group, 69.0%; and the power group, 90.5%. For qualitative data collection, we have conducted semi-structured interviews with five managers, from whom four were academic center directors and one a graduation course coordinator of UFMA. For data analysis, we adopted the content analysis using categorical and annunciation techniques. From this analysis, three categories have arisen, not a priori: institutional self-assessment process perception, participation in the process and self-evaluation process results perception. Approaches complementation - quantitative and qualitative - was accomplished through data triangulation. Results of data triangulation allowed us to verify the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics on perceptions of graduation course coordinators and academic centers directors in the selfevaluation process. The study results allowed us to know managers entrepreneurial characteristics and their relationship to their perceptions of institutional self-evaluation, so that these characteristics may contribute to the development of the institutional self-evaluation process at Universidade Federal do Maranhão.
A avaliação nas instituições de educação superior IES no Brasil vem ganhando um papel relevante nas últimas décadas e, com o Sistema nacional de avaliação de ensino superior SINAES as instituições consolidam o modelo de avaliação objetivando a melhoria da qualidade na educação superior. O estudo foi desenvolvido com o objetivo de analisar a percepção dos gestores da Universidade Federal do Maranhão - UFMA sobre o processo de autoavaliação Institucional, e sua influência sobre o comportamento empreendedor em relação a esse processo. Foi utilizado um método misto, quantitativo e qualitativo, do tipo exploratório e, como estratégia de pesquisa, o estudo de caso. Para abordagem quantitativa foi utilizado questionários das características comportamentais empreendedoras (CCEs) de McClelland com o objetivo de identificar as características comportamentais empreendedoras dos gestores envolvidos no processo de autoavaliação. Participaram do estudo 42 gestores, os coordenadores de cursos de graduação presencial e diretores dos centros acadêmicos. Os resultados obtidos constataram que na caracterização do perfil houve uma frequência maior do gênero feminino, a maioria dos pesquisados estão na faixa etária de 34 a 41 anos, participaram da pesquisa 8 centros acadêmicos, onde o CCH e CCSo obteve-se um maior índice de respondentes. Com relação a titulação há predomínio de doutores ocupando cargos de gestão (61,9%) e a maioria com menos de 7 anos na instituição. Com relação ao envolvimento no processo de autoavaliação 52,4% não possuem envolvimento com esse processo. As dez características comportamentais empreendedoras CCEs obtiveram nível de intensidade médio e forte com destaque para a busca de informação que obteve 97,6%. Dos conjuntos de agrupamentos das características comportamentais empreendedoras obteve-se 90,5% no conjunto realização, 69,0% no conjunto planejamento e 90,5% no conjunto poder. A abordagem qualitativa foi realizada com cinco gestores, sendo quatro diretores de centro acadêmico e um coordenador de curso de graduação presencial da UFMA, por meio de entrevista semiestruturada. Para a análise dos dados, adotou-se análise de conteúdo a partir da técnica categorial e anunciação. Desta análise, surgiram três categorias não a priori: a percepção do processo de autoavaliação institucional, a participação no processo e a percepção dos resultados do processo de autoavaliação. A complementação das abordagens - quantitativa e qualitativa - foi realizada por meio da triangulação dos dados. Os resultados da triangulação dos dados permitiram verificar a influência das características empreendedoras na percepção dos coordenadores de cursos de graduação presencial e diretores dos centros acadêmicos no processo de autoavaliação. Os resultados do estudo permitiram conhecer as características empreendedoras dos gestores e sua relação na percepção sobre a autoavaliação institucional, de forma que essas características possam contribui para o desenvolvimento do processo de autoavaliação institucional na Universidade Federal do Maranhão.

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Zambon, Sueli Aparecida. "Educação empreendedora: análise dos temas abordados no ensino fundamental, médio e superior." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2014. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/1133.

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Although many efforts have been made to the spread and consolidation of an education that develops individuals more entrepreneurial, there is no consensus or objective guidelines in the literature regarding the topics that should be part of entrepreneurial education, or skills that must be developed. This research aims to seek a better understanding as to the themes and skills that comprise the Entrepreneurial Education. A set of representative experiments of entrepreneurship education was observed in the subjects and skills covered. Data were organized in a form, enabling the identification and comparison of trends by type of education - primary, secondary and higher education, and courses with no relationship with formal education. The results indicate that in elementary school the focus is on Entrepreneurial Behavior. In secondary school, there is a less marked trend in Entrepreneurial Behavior. In Brazilian higher education, there is a balance between the business group and the Entrepreneurial Behavior. In the experiences in higher education abroad, the trend is on Entrepreneurial Behavior. In courses with no ties to formal education has not been possible to identify a conclusive trend, although a greater number of issues have been cited in Business group. Considering all experiments, regardless of the stage or type of education in the Entrepreneurial Behavior group, the most frequently cited issues were Network Relationships, Creativity, and Autonomy. In the business group, the most cited topics were Marketing, Business Plans and Financial Planning. This research helped to provide a better understanding as to the themes and skills that comprise the Entrepreneurial Education, systematizing data, enabling comparisons and identifying trends and the most frequently cited issues in primary, secondary and higher education, and in courses with no relationship with formal education.
Embora muitos esforços venham sendo envidados para a difusão e consolidação de uma educação que desenvolva indivíduos mais empreendedores, não há consenso ou diretrizes objetivas na literatura quanto aos temas que devem fazer parte da educação empreendedora, ou das competências que devem ser desenvolvidas. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo buscar uma melhor compreensão quanto aos temas e competências que compõem a Educação Empreendedora. Um conjunto de experiências representativas da educação empreendedora foi observado em relação aos temas e competências abordados. Dados foram sistematizados em um formulário, visando possibilitar a identificação e comparação de tendências por modalidade de ensino - ensino fundamental, médio, superior e cursos sem vínculo com a educação formal. Os resultados obtidos indicam que no Ensino Fundamental o foco é no Comportamento Empreendedor. No Ensino Médio, há uma tendência menos acentuada no Comportamento Empreendedor. No Ensino Superior brasileiro, há um equilíbrio entre o grupo Negócios e o grupo Comportamento Empreendedor; nas experiências no Ensino Superior do exterior, a tendência é no Comportamento Empreendedor. Nos cursos sem vínculo com a educação formal não foi possível identificar uma tendência conclusiva, embora um número maior de temas tenha sido citado no grupo Negócios. Se considerarmos todas as experiências, independente da modalidade de ensino, no grupo Comportamento Empreendedor os temas mais citados foram Rede de Relacionamentos, Criatividade e Autonomia. No grupo Negócios os temas mais citados foram Marketing, Planos de Negócios e Planejamento Financeiro. Esta pesquisa contribuiu ao proporcionar uma melhor compreensão quanto aos temas e competências que compõem a Educação Empreendedora, sistematizando dados, possibilitando comparações e identificando tendências e temas mais citados nas modalidades de ensino fundamental, médio, superior e cursos sem vínculo com a educação formal.

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Nunes, Walter Cezar. "Empreendedorismo por oportunidade : objeto de aprendizagem com proposta metodológica, desenvolvida à luz da neurociência, para melhorar a performance na capacidade de identificar oportunidades de negócios." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/158299.

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Esta pesquisa, propondo uma metodologia auxiliar para a disciplina de empreendedorismo originou-se de uma análise mais aprofundada ocorrida dentro da universidade, onde se questiona a falta de efetividade dos conteúdos programáticos e metodologias empregadas na educação empreendedora. De um modo geral as Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES), formam mais futuros empregados que empregadores. Várias instituições oferecem inúmeros cursos e disciplinas de empreendedorismo ou afins, mas continuam colocando no mercado cada vez mais jovens que irão competir à um posto de trabalho por não conseguirem ver o empreendedorismo como opção de carreira. Uma possível resposta estaria associada por fatores identificados em estudos recentes que afirmam que é de suma importância entender melhor como funciona o cérebro dos empreendedores para que se possa oferecer metodologias mais assertivas. Para muitos autores o processo de descoberta de oportunidades de negócios é uma das principais características do comportamento empreendedor e entender como este processo ocorre no cérebro dele abriria novas perspectivas. Esta pesquisa, desenvolvida a partir de dois experimentos, busca contribuir no âmbito universitário com uma proposta metodológica, desenvolvida à luz da neurociência, para a disciplina de Empreendedorismo. No primeiro experimento, denominado de teste piloto, com o objetivo de verificar possíveis padrões nos clusters neurais dos empreendedores, quando identificam uma oportunidade, foi realizado o Mapeamento Cognitivo Cerebral com o uso de eletroencefalograma em 14 indivíduos do sexo masculino, sendo sete “empreendedores estabelecidos” e sete não empreendedores. Os resultados dos testes mostraram que os mapas neurais dos empreendedores sugeriram que as áreas frontais direita e esquerda dos cérebros foram acionadas tanto no momento de descoberta de oportunidades quanto no momento de propensão a assumir riscos, enquanto os não empreendedores mostraram organizações neurais bem distintas durante os dois momentos. Este resultado aliado a outros estudos realizados por pesquisadores de empreendedorismo levou ao segundo experimento: o desenvolvimento de uma proposta metodológica auxiliar, que melhorasse a performance de alunos no processo de identificação de oportunidades de negócios. Esta proposta metodológica, cerne deste estudo, foi apresentada em um objeto de aprendizagem denominado: MADE-PERFIO, Módulo Auxiliar para Disciplina de Empreendedorismo-Performance na Identificação de Oportunidades, um curso de 40 horas, direcionado para melhorar a performance do aluno na identificação de oportunidades. A pesquisa sobre a efetividade da metodologia oferecida através do Módulo foi feita com 45 professores de graduações e de pós graduações e com 50 alunos de pós graduação de diversas faculdades e universidades maranhenses. Através de um curso de capacitação os professores puderam acessar o objeto de aprendizagem, testar a metodologia proposta e desenvolver suas performances cujos resultados foram extremamente encorajadores. Em média, os professores submetidos à nova metodologia melhoraram em 21% suas capacidades em identificarem oportunidades de negócios. Com relação à metodologia apresentada através do MADE-PERFIO, 45% classificaram com o conceito “ótimo” e 40% com o conceito “muito bom”. A metodologia foi apresentada aos alunos no formato de Módulo Auxiliar, pois todos declararam já ter tido contato com a disciplina de Empreendedorismo, mas ainda não haviam empreendido. A pesquisa com os alunos mostrou um acréscimo médio de 23% em suas capacidades de identificarem oportunidades e 65% deles classificaram como “excelente” a relevância do conteúdo.
This research, which proposes an auxiliary method for the entrepreneurship subject, was originated from a more deeply analysis made within the university, where it is argued about the lack of effectiveness in the program contents and methods used in the entrepreneurial education. In general, the higher level educational institutions (IES - Instituições de Ensino Superior) produce more future employees than employers. Several institutions may offer countless entrepreneurial and other related courses and subjects but continue increasingly placing in the labor market the youngsters who will try to find a job instead of starting some entrepreneurship as a career. A possible answer would be associated to factors identified in recent studies that claim to be of utmost importance to better understand how the entrepreneurs' brains work in order to offer more assertive methodologies. For many authors the process of business opportunities discovery is one of the main characteristics of the entrepreneur behavior and new perspectives could be open by understanding how this process works in the brain. The research, developed from two experiments, seeks to contribute in the university field with a methodological proposition to the subject of Entrepreneurship developed by the light of neuroscience. In the first experiment, called pilot test, which had the aim to check eventual standards in the entrepreneurs' neural clusters when they identify an opportunity, it was provided a Cognitive Brain Mapping by using electroencephalogram in 14 male individuals: seven were "established entrepreneurs" and seven were non-entrepreneurs. The test results showed that the entrepreneurs' neural maps suggested that the right front and the left front areas of the brain were set in motion both at the moment the opportunities were discovered and at the moment of taking risks, while non-entrepreneurs showed neural organizations much different in both moments. This result, combined to other studies made by entrepreneurship researchers, led to a second experiment: the development of an auxiliary methodological proposal that could improve the students' performance in the process of identification of business opportunities. This methodological proposal, main objective of this study, was presented in a learning issue called MADE-PERFIO, Módulo Auxiliar para Disciplina de Empeendedorismo-Performance na Identificação de Oportunidades (Auxiliary Module for the Entrepreneurship-Performance Subject to identify Opportunities), a 40-hour course designed to improve the student performance in the opportunities identification process. Research studies on the effectiveness of methodology offered through the Module was made with 45 graduation and post-graduation teachers and with 50 post-graduation students from several colleges and universities of Maranhão. Teachers, by means of a qualification course, had the chance to access the learning object, to test the proposed methodology and develop its performance whose results were thoroughly encouraging.Teachers submitted to the new technology improved in 21% their abilities in the business opportunity identification. With respect to the methodology presented through MADE-PERFIO, 45% considered the concept as "excellent" and 40% as "very good". The methodology was presented to the students in an Auxiliary Module format, since all of them pointed that they had contact with Entrepreneurship course but none had good understanding. Research studies with the students showed an average increase of 23% in their opportunities identification abilities and 65% considered "excellent" on the content of the material showed by MADE-PERFIO.

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HELTERLIN, Gilles, and Nuno RAMALHO. "How did the deregulation of air transportation in Europe foster entrepreneurial behavior and innovation in the European airline industry over the last twenty years? : Case studies: SAS Airline & Ryanair." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1224.

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The dynamics of business contexts influence the way firms act in their industry. These changes can have effects in several areas within a company. Entrepreneurship and Innovation are two areas that are affected when a change in firm’s environment occurs, like Schumpeter, Shane and Drucker point. Changes in the deregulatory framework are a specific type of change that can occur. According to Entrepreneurship theories, the removal of regulatory barriers creates opportunities to different reallocation of resources that can lead to changes in market equilibrium. This study addresses this relation between deregulation and entrepreneurship-innovation in the European airline industry. With the removal of regulatory barriers, companies like SAS and Ryanair, saw opportunities to do something new and at the same time had to adapt to these “doing something new” behavior of other companies. Entrepreneurship and innovation were the answer to theses changes and the weapon to fight answers to others with this change. Considering this, our statement problem is the following:

How did the deregulation of air transportation in Europe foster entrepreneurial behavior and innovation in the European airline industry over the last twenty years? The case of SAS and Ryanair.

Our goal is to describe the process of deregulation and how firms reacted to it and to give explanations behind the relation deregulation-entrepreneurship, identifying the direct and indirect influence of deregulation in the studied companies. Furthermore, based on this investigation, we will trace possible ways on how future deregulation in Europe can foster further entrepreneurial behavior and innovation.

This thesis was conducted with a positivism scientific ideal and a deductive approach. We used a qualitative method to collect empirical data that could match with the theories we had chosen beforehand. We conducted three interviews with people inside the industry – from airlines (SAS Braathens and SAS) and from airports (LFV). The first two were used as main sources to SAS case study and the third to have a perspective of airline industry. Since we could not get any interview with Ryanair, Ryanair story book was used as main source for this case study.

Our theoretical framework consists of four different broad areas that are interrelated to each other. These areas and the respective theories integrated in them are: institutions and regulation, changes in context and strategic position.

Our study shows that EU deregulation altered the five competitive forces in European airline industry and in turn this fostered entrepreneurship and innovation, as a reaction of firms to adapt to the change in their context. The reaction of Ryanair and SAS through entrepreneurial and innovative behaviour was different due to the differences in their business model. We argue that the removal of barriers to new entrants and the increased rivalry between firms were the main forces that fostered entrepreneurship and innovation. We predict that if further EU deregulation comes (as it is the trend) this will generate more opportunities to entrepreneurship and innovation like it generated in the past.

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Karim, Mohammed Shamsul. "Entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial behaviour : a social psychological perspective." Thesis, Aston University, 2014. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/24449/.

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Increasing the supply of entrepreneurs reduces unemployment and accelerates economic growth (Acs, 2006; Audretsch, 2007; Santarelli et el. 2009; Campbell, 1996; Carree & Thurik, 1996). The supply of entrepreneurs depends on the entrepreneurial intention and activity of the people (Kruger & Brazeal, 1994). Existing behavioural theories explain that entrepreneurial activity is an attitude driven process which is mediated by intention and regulated by behavioural control. These theories are: Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1991; 2002, 2012); Entrepreneurial Event Model (Shapiro & Shokol, 1982), and Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1977; 1986; 2012). Meta-analysis of existing behavioural theories in different fields found that the theories are more effective to analyse behavioural intention and habitual behaviour, but less effective to analyse long-term and risky behaviour (McEachan et al., 2011). The objective of this dissertation is to improve entrepreneurship behaviour theory to advance our understanding of the determinants of the entrepreneurial intention and activity. To achieve this objective we asked three compelling questions in our research. These are: Firstly, why do differences exist in entrepreneurship among age groups. Secondly, how can we improve the theory to analyse entrepreneurial intention and behaviour? And, thirdly, is there any relationship between counterfactual or regretful thinking and entrepreneurial intention? We address these three questions in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of the dissertation. Earlier studies have identified that there is an inverse U shaped relationship between age and entrepreneurship (Parker, 2004; Hart et al., 2004). In our study, we explain the reasons for this inverse U shape (Chapter 2). To analyse the reasons we use Cognitive Life Cycle theory and Disuse theory. We assume that the stage in the life cycle of an individual moderates the influence of opportunity identification and skill to start a business. In our study, we analyse the moderation effect in early stage entrepreneurship and in serial entrepreneurship. In Chapter 3, the limitations of existing psychological theories are discussed, and a competency value theory of entrepreneurship (CVTE) is proposed to overcome the limitations and extend existing theories. We use a ‘weighted competency’ variable instead of a ‘perceived behavioural control’ variable for the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and self-efficacy variable for social cognitive theory. Weighted competency is the perceived competency ranking assigned by an individual for his total competencies to be an entrepreneur. The proposed theory was tested in a pilot survey in the UK and in a national adult population survey in a South Asian Country. The results show a significant relationship between competencies and entrepreneurial intention, and weighted competencies and entrepreneurial behaviour as per CVTE. To improve the theory further, in Chapter 4, we test the relationship between counterfactual thinking and entrepreneurial intention. Studies in cognitive psychology identify that ‘upward counterfactual thinking’ influences intention and behaviour (Epstude & Rose, 2008; Smallman & Roese, 2009). Upward counterfactual thinking is regretful thinking for missed opportunities of a problem. This study addresses the question of how an individual’s regretful thinking affects his or her future entrepreneurial career intention. To do so, we conducted a study among students in a business school in the UK, and we found that counterfactual thinking modifies the influence of attitude and opportunity identification in entrepreneurial career intention.

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Krakauer, Decio. "Comportamento empreendedor e sua relação com o desempenho organizacional em empresas de software." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12142/tde-14022019-113841/.

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O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar o comportamento empreendedor de proprietários de pequenas e médias empresas de software de forma a identificar os comportamentos e ações que podem melhorar o seu desempenho organizacional. O estudo foi realizado em uma rede de revendas de uma empresa nacional de software de gestão empresarial integrada (Enterprise Resource Planning - ERP), que tem mais de 100 empresas representantes no país. Essas revendas têm empresários com comportamentos distintos entre si, com grande diferença nos resultados finais e no seu desempenho individual. Este trabalho está baseado em uma revisão teórica sobre o comportamento empreendedor, o desempenho organizacional, pequenas e médias empresas do setor de tecnologia e empreendedorismo, visando maior compreensão acerca desses temas. Realizou-se um estudo descritivo, com aplicação de uma pesquisa quantitativa com os proprietários dessas empresas, por meio de um questionário estruturado e validado com base na literatura, que foi disponibilizado online para autopreenchimento. Os resultados obtidos indicam que os comportamentos empreendedores de autorrealização, planejamento, inovação, além do constructo agressividade empresarial, são de maior significância para um maior desempenho organizacional, bem como algumas das características sociodemográficas de seus proprietários, como tempo de empresa entre 5 e 15 anos e dentro da faixa etária entre 26 e 45 anos. O estudo apresenta propostas de treinamento, recrutamento e de gestão para os proprietários das revendas e para os gestores da empresa estudada, de forma a fortalecer alguns dos comportamentos empreendedores dos proprietários das revendas, em busca do aumento do seu desempenho organizacional. Esses resultados se aplicam apenas a esta pesquisa, pois a amostra não é probabilística e, portanto, não podem ser generalizados.
The present study aims to analyze the entrepreneurial behavior of owners of small and medium-sized enterprises software in order to identify behaviors and actions that can improve their organizational performance. The study was conducted in a resales network of a national company of Enterprise Resource Planning - ERP software, which has more than 100 companies representing the country. These resellers have entrepreneurs with different behaviors, with great difference in the final results and their individual performance. The work is based on a theoretical review about entrepreneurial behavior, organizational performance, small and medium-sized companies in the technology and entrepreneurship industry, aiming more understanding of these topics. A descriptive study was carried out, with the application of a quantitative survey with the owners of these companies, through a structured and validated questionnaire based on the literature, which was made available online. The results obtained indicate that the entrepreneurial behaviors of self-realization, planning, innovation, in addition to the entrepreneurial aggressiveness construct, are of greater significance for greater organizational performance, As well as some of the sociodemographic characteristics of its owners, such as company time between 5 and 15 years and within the age range between 26 and 45 years. The study presents proposals for training, recruitment and management for the owners of the resellers and for the managers of the company studied, in order to strengthen some of the entrepreneurial behaviors of the owners of the resellers, in search of the increase of their organizational performance. These results apply just for this research, because the sample is not probabilistic and cannot be generalized.

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Dalcin, Dioneia. "Os estilos de tomada de decisão e o desempenho econômico das propriedades rurais de Palmeira das Missões/RS." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/89731.

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A administração em propriedades rurais é dinâmica, como exemplo, os agricultores tem que desenvolver novas habilidades para ser competitivos. Diante deste cenário onde o agricultor precisa produzir e atender ao mercado consumidor, a compreensão do comportamento do agricultor torna-se relevante. Assim, o objetivo geral deste trabalho é verificar os estilos de tomada de decisão do agricultor e o comportamento ou não empreendedor e relacioná-los com o desempenho econômico da propriedade, no município de Palmeira das Missões/RS. Para tanto foram entrevistados 101 agricultores em todas as localidades do município de forma aleatória, procurando responder os objetivos do trabalho e a realização de análises descritivas e inferenciais como: associações, correlações, modelos lineares generalizados, fatorial e cluster. De forma geral, os agricultores palmeirenses podem ser caracterizados com concentração de homens no meio rural, baixa escolaridade, estrutura fundiária de até 100 ha, atividades principal grãos e bovinocultura de leite e receita bruta mensal média de R$ 40.770,22. Ainda, destaca-se a heterogeneidade entre os agricultores, formando dois grupos, um composto pelos decisores com Estilo 1 e que possuem nada ou pouco comportamento empreendedor, além de menor escolaridade, receita bruta e SAU. E o grupo dois composto por decisores com estilo 3, apresentando razoável comportamento empreendedor e maior receita bruta, escolaridade e SAU. Ressalta-se que os indicadores de maior importância para a receita bruta foram decisões baseadas em intuição/impulso ou custo/benefício, avaliação de risco para o modelo um e comportamento de conseguir baixar custo de produção e uso da internet como fonte de informação para o modelo dois. Outros fatores relevantes para a receita bruta foram SAU, tempo de gestão, investimento e UTH, ou seja, há relação positiva entre as variáveis, ou melhor, quando aumenta a receita bruta há também aumento das outras variáveis. Quanto ao estilo de tomada de decisão e grau de empreendedorismo observou-se que possuem médias distintas das variáveis investimento, SAU, receita bruta e escolaridade. Portanto, os resultados mostram que há peculiaridades importantes quanto ao desempenho econômico e que este é influenciado pelas características do agricultor, da propriedade, pelo estilo de tomada de decisão e do comportamento ou não empreendedor, evidenciando à heterogeneidade das propriedades. Abre-se, então, novas possibilidades de estudos que possam aprofundar, por meio de análises qualitativas o desempenho econômico das propriedades e sua relação com as bases teóricas estudadas.
The management on farms is dynamic, for instance, farmers have to develop new skills to be competitive. Given this scenario where the farmer needs to produce and cater to the consumer market, understanding the behavior of the farmer is relevant. The following research aimed to check the styles of decision making of the farmers and entrepreneurial or not behavior and relate them to the economic performance of the property, in Palmeira das Missoes/RS. Therefore, 101 farmers have been interviewed in all locations of the city at random, aiming to answer the research objectives and conducting descriptive and inferential analysis such as associations, correlations, generalized linear models, factor and cluster. In general, farmers from the town can be characterized with concentration of men in rural, low education, land ownership up to 100 ha, the main activities are grains and dairy cattle and average monthly gross income of R$ 40,770.22. Still, there is heterogeneity amongst farmers, forming two groups, one composed of decision makers with Style 1 and that have little or nothing entrepreneurial behavior, and less education, gross income and SAU. And group 2 comprised of decision makers with style 3, with reasonable entrepreneurial behavior and higher gross income, education and SAU. It is emphasized that the indicators of greatest importance to the gross income were decisions based on intuition/impulse or cost/benefit, risk assessment for model one and behavior to achieve lower cost of production and use of the Internet as an information source for model two. Other factors relevant to the gross incomes were SAU, time management, investment and UTH, it means there is a positive relationship between the variables, or rather when the gross incomes increases there is also an increase in other variables. As for the style of decision making and degree of entrepreneurship, it was observed that the variables have different average investment, SAU, gross income, and education. Therefore, the results show that there are important peculiarities regarding economic performance and that this is influenced by the characteristics of the farmer's property, by the style of decision making and entrepreneurial or not behavior, highlighting the heterogeneity of properties. New possibilities are seen for studies to deepen, through qualitative analysis and economic performance of the properties and their relation to the theoretical study.

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Souza, Gustavo Henrique Silva de. "Inventário de barreiras e facilitadores ao empreendedorismo: construção e validação de uma medida psicométrica." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2014. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1238.

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The identification of the entrepreneurial behavior comes finding it difficult to measure, since the results and instruments, developed so far, don't have presented a behavioral model of universal compatibility for the entrepreneur and not have followed some recommendations found in the literature for research in entrepreneurship, considering circumstantial and behavioral elements. Accordingly, in order to fill this gap, this dissertation reports a study on the construction and validation of the inventory of barriers and Facilitators to entrepreneurship, Act for 8 independent factors: intention to Undertake; Risk; Access to Capital; Innovation; Opportunity; Leadership and management; Relationship network; Passion. The study part of the premise that the individual is faced with barriers and Facilitators, behavioral and contextual order (social and environmental), that can propel or inhibit the action to take. Through validation techniques, a low-cost instrument (pencil and paper) and easy to apply (self-report), with appropriate psychometric parameters.
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A identificação do comportamento empreendedor vem encontrando dificuldades de mensuração, uma vez que os resultados e instrumentos, até então desenvolvidos, não tem apresentado um modelo comportamental de compatibilidade universal para o empreendedor e não tem seguido algumas recomendações encontradas na literatura para a pesquisa em empreendedorismo, considerando elementos circunstanciais e comportamentais. Nesse sentido, visando preencher essa lacuna, esta Dissertação reporta um estudo sobre a construção e validação do Inventário de Barreiras e Facilitadores ao Empreendedorismo, comporto por 8 fatores independentes: Intenção de Empreender; Risco; Acesso à Capital; Inovação; Oportunidade; Liderança e Gerenciamento; Rede de Relacionamento; Paixão. O estudo parte da premissa de que o indivíduo se depara com Barreiras e Facilitadores, de ordem comportamental e contextual (social e ambiental), que podem impelir ou inibir a ação de empreender. Por meio de técnicas de validação, chegou-se a um instrumento de baixo custo (lápis e papel) e de fácil aplicação (autorrelato), com parâmetros psicométricos adequados.

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Fraser, Arron Mark. "A MIXED METHOD STUDY OF WHAT INFLUENCES SUBSIDIARY MANAGERS’ COMPLIANCE WITH HEADQUARTERS INSTRUCTIONS." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1522685464965911.

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Scheiner, Christian Willi. "Fundamental determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour." Wiesbaden Gabler, 2008. http://d-nb.info/991752686/04.

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Meres, Sereke-Berhan. "Ethiopian and Eritrean Businesses Growth Barriers in the Washington, DC Area." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2613.

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Prior studies have revealed that recent Asian and Hispanic immigrant entrepreneurs have made significant contributions to social change in the United States. Although African immigrant entrepreneurs have made such contributions, few studies exist about them, and there is limited knowledge about this business community. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify the barriers of growth in Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrant-owned firms in the Washington, DC area who were in business for a minimum of 3 years and represented various trade lines and geographical locations. The enhanced integrated model of ethnic business development, which proposes growth strategies by analyzing the interaction of opportunity structures, ethnic resources, and entrepreneurial and management skills, was used as the conceptual framework to guide this study. Semistructured interview data were gathered from the business owners and then analyzed by employing a pattern matching technique. The data analysis revealed the themes of management deficiencies and the lack of organizational support system as the main growth barriers of the firms studied. These findings suggested the improvement of management skills and the creation of an organizational support system. This effort demands a collaboration of public, private, and community organizations. The results of this study may have positive social change implications to local economies by facilitating the growth of immigrant-owned businesses and enhancing their job and income-creating potential.

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Pittaway, Luke Alan. "The social construction of entrepreneurial behaviour." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/190.

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The research examined the nature of behaviour in relation to the motivations and aspirations of small business owners. The work provides a more comprehensive understanding of business owners' behaviours and their reasons for being in business. The thesis analyses the philosophical assumptions underlying theories and previous ideas on entrepreneurship. It shows that such assumptions guide and/or restrict the process of knowledge construction in the subject. One contribution that the work provides is to develop theoretical frameworks, based on the principles of Social Constructionism, which are used to guide the methodology and field research. The field research, which involved benchmark case studies and critical incident interviews with restaurant business owners, explores and codes narrative data examining behaviours related to entrepreneurship. The results show that the interviewees' reasons for being in business have an important impact on their behavioural strategies. This affects the way they socially construct and relate to their external environment. The thesis is concluded by the presentation of an integrated typology that builds on and adds to existing knowledge in the subject area. The work thus provides a better understanding of small businesses and may better inform business support and enterprise policy.

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Lima, Luciano Gonçalves de. "Comportamento empreendedor à luz do constructo do capital psicológico e da teoria social cognitiva, na perspectiva da agência humana." Universidade Nove de Julho, 2016. http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/1516.

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The area of entrepreneurship with the fragmented studies has inhibited some consensual aspects to explain the phenomenon of entrepreneurial behavior. The replies are sought in several subjects under the most varied aspects, but it is in psychology which is supported for the explanations in order to establish characteristics that lead to understanding the entrepreneurial behavior: need for achievement, initiative, the statement, the orientation to efficiency, systematic planning and commitment to work (McClelland, 1961). In the context of positive psychology arises the organizational behavior giving rise to the psychological capital. Thus, four important forces are formed that produces a state of psychological growth in the individual: self-efficacy, optimism, hope and resilience (Luthans, Luthans, & Luthans, 2004). Not unlike the social cognitive theory, in the perspective of human agency, the psychological capital has fundamental characteristics such as intentionality in which people form intentions that include plans and action strategies to accomplish them (anticipation). This involves more than make plans directed to the future, but to create goals for yourself predicting outcomes likely to prospective acts in order to guide and motivate the efforts in advance (Bandura, 2001). Considering the characteristic of these two theories, the general purpose of this research is to analyze the entrepreneurial behavior in light of the components of the construct of psychological capital and social cognitive theory, in the perspective of human agency. For this purpose, the phenomenological procedure as research strategy was chosen in this study. Therefore, the researcher can identify the essence of human experiences described by participants. The research emphasizes the understanding of the life story of 21 entrepreneurs, who make up the Board of Commercial and Business Association, the Council of Woman Entrepreneur and the Council Young Entrepreneur in Paranavaí city, state of Paraná, Brazil. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. It allows security and flexibility to the researcher to the issues of research interest are addressed while giving freedom to the interviewed to express their experiences. The interviews were recorded with the consent of the participants in order to facilitate the transcription and preserve the essence of the data. The results showed that both the need for self-realization, initiative, relationship, ability to handle adversity and family basis are striking features in all the entrepreneurs of the three survey groups. One aspect that has not been investigated in the research, but that emerged in the results of this research was the solidarity. This construct is more present in the behavior of the Board of ACIAP (Commercial and Business Association) and women entrepreneurs of CME (Council of Woman Entrepreneur) to be elected the solidarity actions as a way of giving back to society by business success that was won by them over time. How the enterprises of young entrepreneurs participating in the research are at the initial stage or phase of maturation, this construct was not relevant in the study and can touch on over time during the entrepreneurial path. This way, the actions that elect an individual with entrepreneurial behavior can be explained through the optics of these two theories that supported this research. However, the psychological capital showed greater explanation because it has among other components the construct of self-efficacy that has been the basis of human agency. It is concluded that entrepreneurs bring sufficient subsidies to exhibit beliefs of self-efficacy, optimism, hope, resilience, intentionality, anticipation, self-relativity and self-reflection that can be analyzed and explained from the perspective of both the psychological capital and human agency. The three groups of entrepreneurs have psychological capital and human agency. This leads us to believe they can be characterized by their entrepreneurial behavior and stigmatized as entrepreneur.
A área de empreendedorismo face aos estudos fragmentados tem inibido alguns aspectos consensuais para explicar o fenômeno do comportamento empreendedor. As respostas são buscadas em várias disciplinas sob os mais variados aspectos, porém é na psicologia que se encontra suporte para os esclarecimentos e entendimentos com vistas a estabelecer características que levam a compreender o comportamento empreendedor: necessidade de realização, a iniciativa, a afirmação, a orientação para a eficiência, o planejamento sistemático e o comprometimento com o trabalho (McClelland, 1961). No contexto da psicologia positiva, surge o comportamento organizacional positivo, contexto que deu origem ao capital psicológico, cujo constructo é formado por quatro importantes forças que produzem um estado de acréscimo psicológico no indivíduo: autoeficácia, otimismo, esperança e resiliência (Luthans, Luthans, & Luthans, 2004). Não diferente, a teoria social cognitiva na perspectiva da agência humana possui características fundamentais como a intencionalidade, onde as pessoas formam intenções que incluem planos e estratégias de ação para realizá-las; antecipação, visto que isso envolve mais do que fazer planos direcionados ao futuro, mas criar objetivos para si mesmos e prever os resultados prováveis de atos prospectivos para guiar e motivar seus esforços antecipadamente (Bandura, 2001). Considerando-se a característica dessas duas teorias, o objetivo geral desta tese é analisar comportamento empreendedor à luz dos componentes do constructo do capital psicológico e da teoria social cognitiva, na perspectiva da agência humana. Para tanto foi eleita a pesquisa fenomenológica como estratégia de investigação em que o pesquisador identifica a essência das experiências humanas descritas pelos participantes. A pesquisa enfatiza a compreensão da história de vida de 21 empreendedores que integram a diretoria da Associação Comercial e Empresarial, o Conselho da Mulher Empresária, e o Conselho do Jovem Empresário da cidade de Paranavaí - PR. A entrevista em profundidade apoiada em um roteiro semiestruturado foi o instrumento de coleta de dados, pois ela permite segurança e flexibilidade ao pesquisador para que os assuntos de interesse da pesquisa sejam abordados, ao mesmo tempo em que dá liberdade ao entrevistado de expressar suas experiências. As entrevistas foram gravadas com o consentimento dos participantes visando facilitar a transcrição e preservar a essência dos dados. Os dados foram categorizados por meio da análise de conteúdo e tratados à luz destas teorias. Os resultados evidenciaram que tanto a necessidade de autorrealização, iniciativa, relacionamento, capacidade de lidar com adversidade e base familiar, são características marcantes em todos os empreendedores dos três grupos participantes da pesquisa. Um aspecto não investigado na pesquisa, mas que surgiu nos resultados foi a solidariedade. Este constructo está mais presente no comportamento dos empreendedores diretores da ACIAP e nas mulheres empreendedoras do CME, ao elegerem as ações de solidariedade como uma forma de retribuir à sociedade pelo sucesso do negócio conquistado por eles ao longo do tempo. Como os empreendimentos dos jovens empreendedores participantes da pesquisa estão na fase inicial ou fase de maturação, este constructo não se mostrou relevante, podendo vir aflorar com o tempo no decorrer da trajetória empreendedora. Dessa forma, fica evidente que as ações que elegem um indivíduo com comportamento empreendedor podem ser explicadas através da ótica dessas duas teorias que embasaram o estudo. Porém o capital psicológico mostrou maior poder de explicação por possuir entre outros componentes que formam o constructo a autoeficácia, que é base da agência humana. Conclui-se que os empreendedores trazem subsídios suficientes ao exibirem crenças de autoeficácia, otimismo, esperança, resiliência, intencionalidade, antecipação, autorreatividade e autorreflexão que podem ser analisados e explicados sob a ótica tanto do capital psicológico, quanto da agência humana. Os três grupos de empreendedores adotam, no seu dia a dia, ações provenientes do capital psicológico e da agência humana, evidenciando que seus comportamentos os caracterizam como empreendedores.

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Severino, Bueno Illuminada del Carmen. "L'influence du gouvernement corporatif des entreprises familiales sur son comportement financier : le cas de la République Dominicaine." Thesis, Bordeaux 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR40013/document.

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Long term family fortune preservation is a matter of human behavior; it is a dynamic process of activity or group governance that has to be reenergized successfully in each successive generation to overcome the threat of falling into entropy. Each successive generation has to reaffirm its participation in such government system.Family enterprises are the fundamental actors of the economic activity, and also constitute a stability factor of the productive system, because the majority of them is small or medium-sized (SMEs), and that is why it is interesting to investigate their financial behavior.There is little knowledge concerning financing decisions of enterprises on emerging markets. There is a particular need of empirical work that identifies the financial patterns of developing countries enterprises. It is possible that these enterprises are creating a new financial structure that results convenient for their particular environment
Long term family fortune preservation is a matter of human behavior; it is a dynamic process of activity or group governance that has to be reenergized successfully in each successive generation to overcome the threat of falling into entropy. Each successive generation has to reaffirm its participation in such government system.Family enterprises are the fundamental actors of the economic activity, and also constitute a stability factor of the productive system, because the majority of them is small or medium-sized (SMEs), and that is why it is interesting to investigate their financial behavior.There is little knowledge concerning financing decisions of enterprises on emerging markets. There is a particular need of empirical work that identifies the financial patterns of developing countries enterprises. It is possible that these enterprises are creating a new financial structure that results convenient for their particular environment

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Mba, Michael Kalu. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Sector Interventions in Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6615.

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Entrepreneurship is significant to the production process for economic growth and development. The Nigerian government supports entrepreneurial development by providing business training for entrepreneurs across the country; however, the impact of such programs in current entrepreneurship in Nigeria has not been researched. This study was designed to examine the impact of the training on entrepreneurial outcomes such as profitability, revenue, and access to finance using the social construction framework and the theory of external control of organizations. Based on a quantitative quasi-experimental design involving a posttest comparison group, the impact of government support on randomly selected beneficiaries and nonbeneficiaries with the FCT was tested using an independent samples t test and binary logistic regression analysis. The results showed no significant relationship between business training and entrepreneurial outcomes. Additionally, it was not likely that an unemployed beneficiary would start a new business after the training, and trainees had difficulty accessing business loans. The social change implication of this study is that public sector institutions engaged in entrepreneurship development in Nigeria need pragmatic interventions that translate into positive entrepreneurial outcomes. They also need to focus on areas that cater for different categories of entrepreneurs such as age groups, educational level, business experience, and nature of the business to enhance effectiveness. Periodic assessment of the intervention programs is necessary using experimental and quasi-experimental studies. Therefore, this study can contribute to the data that public sector institutions can use to develop better interventions for entrepreneurs.

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Roche, Kathleen. "The Great Recession and Nonprofit Endurance: Framing the Mission-Defensive Paradox." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1568627407775438.

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Boso, Nathaniel. "Export entrepreneurial-oriented behaviour and export performance." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8226.

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Predicting export performance remains an important issue at the heart of export research and management. This is because of the primary role of exporting to ensuring the profitability, growth and survival of firms. Given these and other benefits that firms stand to gain (and the challenges that firms face) for their active engagement in exporting, scholars have exerted efforts into explaining the causes of export success. Export marketing strategy, firm characteristics, capabilities and firms' orientations towards export markets are some the variables studied. Firms' entrepreneurial orientation towards export markets has been one important variable that has captured the attention of researchers. This study is an attempt to introduce an export context-specific entrepreneurial-oriented behaviour (or export EOB) to the study of antecedents of export performance. A theoretical model involving the relationship between export EOB (and its dimensions) and export performance is, therefore, developed and empirically tested using data from 212 exporting organisations. Findings suggest that firms' overall level of export EOB is a major driver of export success. The study further establishes that a high level of market-oriented behaviour in exporting organisations can help firms to derive stronger benefits from their entrepreneurial activities. At the specific level of the export EOB components, results suggest that development of novel product innovations, high export risk-taking, and strong proactive and competitively aggressive behaviours can help exporting organisations to improve their performance. However, product innovation intensity and autonomy are negatively related to export performance, suggesting that high levels of these two behaviours might lead to poor export performance. Nevertheless, further analysis shows that the negative association between product innovation intensity and export performance becomes positive when moderated by product innovation novelty. In addition, the study shows that autonomy has indirect positive association with export performance through interaction with proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness. In other words, autonomy facilitates the effectiveness of proactive and competitive aggressive behaviours. Further analyses of moderating effect relationships reveal mixed results. Specifically, the study finds that export market orientation positively moderates the link between production innovation intensity and export performance. In addition, export customer dynamism positively moderates the association of product innovation novelty and risk-taking with export performance. On the contrary, export customer dynamism negatively moderates the link between product innovation intensity and export performance. Theoretical, export managerial and policy implications of these findings are discussed and useful areas for future research are proposed.

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Chen, Po-Kai, and 陳柏凱. "The Relationship of Entrepreneurial Passion, Opportunity Recognition, Entrepreneurial Intention and Entrepreneurial Behavior: The View of Theory of Planned Behavior." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54746165590233195577.

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As entrepreneurial activities growing, the studies of entrepreneur and its behavior becoming an important issue. In the theory of planned behavior, we can predict entrepreneurial behavior by entrepreneurial intention. The studies about entrepreneurs that based on the theory of planned behavior mostly focus on entrepreneurial intention, but lack discussion about how the factors affect actual entrepreneurial behavior and entrepreneurial performance. In our point of view, entrepreneurial performance will be an important part of entrepreneurial activities, so we add entrepreneurial performance as a factor in our research model. In this research, we are going to use the theory of planned behavior as a foundation, to find out how entrepreneur’s attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control are going to influence entrepreneurial intention. We are also going to find out the relationship between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial behavior. Our research will discuss the relationship of entrepreneurial performance to entrepreneurial behavior. Besides, we also add other factors in our research, such as entrepreneurial passion and opportunity recognition. The relationship between passion to intention and behavior are also discussed in our research. The sample from this research is based on the list of new ventures established in 2013 to 2015 set up by the Department of Commerce. We send total 1500 questionnaires to our target sample and we received 109 valid questionnaires. Overall, the response rate of the sample is 7.26%. In our result, the two factors, attitude and subjective norm from the theory of planned behavior have no influence on entrepreneurial intention, only perceived behavioral control to have a positive influence on intention. The result from entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial behavior also shows a positive influence relationship. This means we can entrepreneurial behavior is predictable by entrepreneurial intention. But there is also shown that entrepreneurial behavior has no influence on entrepreneurial performance. In the affection of entrepreneurial passion and opportunity recognition, the result show passion have a positive influence on both intention and behavior and behavior have a positive influence on opportunity recognition, but opportunity recognition has no influence on our entrepreneurial performance.

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Lin, Yi-Hua, and 林宜樺. "An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurship Courses, Entrepreneurial Intentions and Entrepreneurial Behavior." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31177013369249160987.

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According to a survey on the employment will of Taiwan college graduates by the domestic Harvard business management consultant Limited, more than 70 percent choose entrepreneurship after graduation. With the prevalence of the entrepreneurial trend, entrepreneurship courses have become an interest of the government and universities. Thus, entrepreneurship courses were set up gradually in research institutes, with the aim of enhancing students’ entrepreneurial intentions, spirit, and ability. The purposes of this study are: (1) to understand the reason, input situation, experience, harvesting, and other processes of respondents attending entrepreneurship courses. (2) To understand the correlation with entrepreneurial intentions after respondents attend entrepreneurship courses. (3) To understand the correlation between respondents’ entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial behavior. This study adopted in-depth interviews and used judgment sampling to select six students who attended entrepreneurship courses as the respondents. Based on the application of Ajzen’s (1991) theory of planned behavior, course record and achievements, study environment impact, study experience, and difficulties encountered and their solutions were explored for the entrepreneurial intentions. Then using the application of Bandura’s social cognitive theory (1977), the relationship between personal/environmental factors and entrepreneurial behavior was explored, analyzed, and summarized. The results showed that respondents believed that good achievements in the entrepreneurship courses had an encouraging effect. During the entrepreneurship courses, respondents received the support and encouragement of teachers, parents, and the Innovation Incubation Center, gradually leading to the development of their entrepreneurial intentions; although the respondents encountered difficulties, they came up with solutions that enhanced entrepreneurial intentions. Respondents had entrepreneurial intentions in the first place, but attending entrepreneurship courses made them clearer. Then, through further study in the Institute, they gained access to venture capital funds of the Ministry of Education and with family support funding addressed environmental problems to promote entrepreneurial behavior.

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Adeel, Shahzada. "Relationship between entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial behavior among higher education students." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/33474.

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Entrepreneurship is an ability of individuals to turn ideas into actions, being acknowledged as an economic driver for society. It is also considered as an important factor for the market economy as it focusses on wealth and job creations. Entrepreneurship helps the society to eradicate poverty, enhance the innovation and increase its productive capacity. Considering, that the world is currently facing the consequences of the COVID19 pandemic, both economically and socially, it is even more relevant to promote entrepreneurship, as the creation of new companies is crucial to relaunch the economies of the countries affected by the pandemic. So, the promotion of entrepreneurship education becomes even more pressing. The governments and universities’ managers put their efforts to instil the entrepreneurial spirits on students, by promoting entrepreneurship courses in universities. However, some researchers found entrepreneurship education ineffective to develop the right skills among the university students, especially those related to the recognition of existing and overlooked opportunities. In order to better understand the most relevant competences that should be promoted in the context of entrepreneurship education, this study focused on the antecedents of entrepreneurial behaviour among higher education students, and how these are affected by gender and entrepreneurship education. More specifically, this study explores the concept of entrepreneurial alertness, how this concept has evolved since the seminal work Kirzner in 1973, through a literature review. In this case, the content analysis revealed five main research trends where entrepreneurial alertness is considered an element of the market process (2000-2004), a perceptual variable that influences an individual’s decision to become an entrepreneur (2005-2008), a dynamic capability of both entrepreneurs and employees (2009-2011), a skill that can be developed through education (2012-2017), and a factor that influences a firm’s performance and a source of competitive advantage (2018-2019). Therefore, over the years the research on entrepreneurial alertness has evolved from the focus on the individual to that of the company, and it is now recognized as a key factor of organizational success. Based on the literature review, it was proposed a theoretical model that explores the relationships among prior knowledge, entrepreneurial alertness, opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial motivation, entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial behavior using a sample of 1290 students from three Portuguese universities. To test the hypotheses, data was analyzed using the SPSS-25 and AMOS-24 software. The results show that all relationships are positively significant, lending empirical support to the hypotheses. The empirical findings also indicate that entrepreneurial alertness and prior knowledge are the antecedents of opportunity recognition. Also, prior knowledge has a significant impact on entrepreneurial alertness and opportunity recognition. Moreover, prior knowledge has a stronger indirect impact on opportunity recognition through entrepreneurial alertness compared to its direct impact. Our results also revealed that entrepreneurial alertness has a stronger direct impact on opportunity recognition compared to its indirect impact through entrepreneurial motivation. In addition, entrepreneurial motivation positively influences the opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial intention. Likewise, opportunity recognition has a significant impact on entrepreneurial intentions which, in turn, positively influence the entrepreneurial behavior among higher education students in the Portuguese context. The results of the multi-group analysis showed that students enrolled in entrepreneurship education are better able to recognize opportunities by being alert, and to express higher entrepreneurial motivations and intentions, leading to superior entrepreneurial behaviour when compared to students without entrepreneurship education. Moreover, by comparing the responses of female and male students, the results indicate that female students show lower entrepreneurial alertness and opportunity recognition capacity when compared to their male counterparts. The present study is also novel in several ways. First, the present study has integrated previous constructs to form a comprehensive model. Second, the study explores the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and development of specific personal motivations, which is not studied in literature. Third, there is no Portuguese study using this model that has been tested on higher education level students.
O empreendedorismo é a capacidade dos indivíduos em transformar as ideias em ações, sendo reconhecido como um impulsionador econômico para a sociedade. Este também é considerado um fator importante para a economia de mercado, pois promove a criação de riqueza e empregos. O empreendedorismo ajuda a sociedade a erradicar a pobreza, potencializar a inovação e aumentar sua capacidade produtiva. Considerando que o mundo enfrenta atualmente as consequências da pandemia COVID19, tanto ao nível económico como social, torna-se ainda mais relevante promover o empreendedorismo, visto que a criação de novas empresas é fundamental para relançar as economias dos países afetados pela pandemia. Assim, a promoção da educação para o empreendedorismo torna-se ainda mais premente. Os governos e gestores da universidade envidam esforços para incutir o espírito empreendedor nos alunos. Promovendo cursos de empreendedorismo nas universidades. No entanto, alguns investigadores consideraram a educação para o empreendedorismo ineficaz para desenvolver as habilidades certas entre os estudantes universitários, especialmente aquelas relacionadas com o reconhecimento de oportunidades existentes e negligenciadas. Com o objetivo de compreender melhor as competências mais relevantes que devem ser promovidas no contexto da educação para o empreendedorismo, este estudo incidiu sobre os antecedentes do comportamento empreendedor entre estudantes do ensino superior e como estes são afetados pela educação para o empreendedorismo e o género. Mais especificamente, este estudo explora o conceito de alerta empreendedor, como este conceito evoluiu desde a obra seminal de Kirzner em 1973, por meio de uma revisão da literatura. Neste caso, a análise de conteúdo revelou cinco tendências principais de pesquisa em que o alerta empreendedor é considerado um elemento do processo de mercado (2000-2004), uma variável percetual que influencia a decisão de um indivíduo em se tornar um empreendedor (2005-2008), uma capacidade dinâmica de empreendedores e funcionários (2009-2011), uma habilidade que pode ser desenvolvida por meio da educação (2012-2017), e um fator que influencia o desempenho de uma empresa e uma fonte de vantagem competitiva (2018-2019). Portanto, ao longo dos anos, a investigação sobre o alerta empreendedor alterou o foco do indivíduo para o da empresa, sendo hoje reconhecida como um fator-chave para o sucesso organizacional. Com base na revisão da literatura, foi proposto um modelo teórico que explora as relações entre o conhecimento prévio, o alerta empreendedor, o reconhecimento de oportunidades, a motivação empreendedora, a intenção empreendedora e o comportamento empreendedor numa amostra de 1290 alunos de três universidades portuguesas. Para testar as hipóteses, os dados foram analisados por meio dos softwares SPSS-25 e AMOS-24. Os resultados mostram que todas as relações são positivamente significativas, dando suporte empírico às hipóteses. Os resultados empíricos também indicam que o alerta empreendedor e o conhecimento prévio são os antecedentes do reconhecimento de oportunidades. Além disso, o conhecimento prévio tem um impacto significativo no alerta empreendedor e no reconhecimento de oportunidades. Mais especificamente, o conhecimento prévio tem um impacto indireto mais forte no reconhecimento de oportunidades por meio do alerta empreendedor em comparação com seu impacto direto. Os resultados também revelaram que o alerta empreendedor tem um impacto direto mais forte no reconhecimento de oportunidades em comparação com seu impacto indireto por meio da motivação empreendedora. Por sua vez, a motivação empreendedora influencia positivamente o reconhecimento da oportunidade e a intenção empreendedora. Da mesma forma, o reconhecimento de oportunidades tem um impacto significativo nas intenções empreendedoras que, por sua vez, influenciam positivamente o comportamento empreendedor dos alunos do ensino superior no contexto português. Os resultados da análise multigrupo mostraram que os alunos matriculados em cursos de educação para o empreendedorismo são mais capazes de reconhecer oportunidades por estarem alertas e de expressar maiores motivações e intenções empreendedoras, levando a um comportamento empreendedor superior quando comparados aos alunos sem educação para o empreendedorismo. Além disso, ao comparar as respostas de alunos do sexo feminino e masculino, os resultados indicam que os alunos do sexo feminino apresentam menor alerta empreendedor e capacidade de reconhecimento de oportunidades quando comparados aos do sexo masculino. O presente estudo é novo em vários aspetos. Em primeiro lugar, o presente estudo integrou constructos anteriores para formar um modelo mais abrangente. Em segundo lugar, o estudo explora a relação entre o alerta empreendedor e o desenvolvimento de motivações pessoais específicas, o que não é estudado na literatura. Em terceiro lugar, não existe nenhum estudo utilizando este modelo realizado no contexto português e que tenha sido testado em estudantes do ensino superior.
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