Capital social e intenção empreendedora dos estudantes de administração de uma instituição de ensino superior da serra gaúcha

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is bound to awaken the desire to create new venturesin people. These businesses are essential to the generation of wealth, job creation and are responsible for technological innovations. Furthermore, entrepreneurship suffers significant influence of social capital on collective action in the opportunity recognition process. This supports the fact that entrepreneurship is a process of collective exploration and opportunity recognition, which is not purely created nor discovered by a single person, but enacted in partnerships, networks and alliances. The greater the number and proximity of relationships as people who recommend to opportunity recognition, the greater the collective action of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs have to therefore engage in collective action with the help of any social networking and personal relationships. Higher education institutions have been the appropriate place to awaken, develop or encourage entrepreneurs. The important role played by business incubators is to host students or community members’projects. It is generated by initiatives born within the universities in different areas of knowledge. This study aims to measure the level of social capital of students of an institution of higher education who are enrolled in courses in the area of business management and its relationship with the factors that motivate entrepreneurial intention. A social capital analysis was done through the study of Halpern (2005) and Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998), and Türker and Selcuk (2008) and Chen and Linan (2009) were studied for the entrepreneurial intention. Data analysis was realized through factor analysis, linear regression, ANOVA and Pearson correlation. The study presents the major factors that influence the creation of social capital (micro, meso and macro) and entrepreneurial intention (educational, relational and structural) in a university environment. Thus, these factors were correlated with the subjects where it was found that the micro factor of social capital is correlated With all the factors of entrepreneurial intention. The meso factor was correlated with the relational factor and the macro factor was correlated with the structural factor. The results show the existence of a relationship between the factors that influence the social capital with the factors that influence entrepreneurial intention of academics from a higher education institution of Serra Gaúcha.