A Intenção Empreendedora Em Indivíduos Envolvidos Em Incubadoras De Empresas

Abstract

Este estudo tem como objetivo compreender a intenção empreendedora de indivíduos vinculados a incubadoras de empresas à luz da teoria do comportamento planejado e observar a influência do contexto econômico, da orientação individual empreendedora e das ações da incubadora sobre a atitude de empreender. O trabalho possui uma abordagem descritiva quantitativa, tendo os dados coletados a partir de um questionário estruturado empregando a escala Likert de 7 pontos. Na análise de dados, foi utilizado o modelo de equações estruturais para testar as hipóteses, aplicando o software SmartPLS. As implicações práticas apontam evidências concretas de relacionamento entre os constructos para explicar a intenção e a ação de empreender de indivíduos vinculados em incubadoras de empresas. Diante disto, os resultados estatísticos comprovaram que o modelo conceitual proposto se mostrou adequado.

Entrepreneurial Intention of Individuals Linked to Companies’ Incubators: A Study Based on Planned Behavior

“…Upon evaluating the constructs that are part of the model concerning the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the one that most influences Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) is Attitude (A), which presents a path coefficient (PC) of 0.439 (p<=0.01) and represents an explanation of 44% over EI. Research supports these constructs' correlation by Hecke (2011), who checked the attitude of administration students with an explanation of up to 47.2% of EI, as well as the research by Arruda et al (2015) and Montenegro, Arruda, & Vasconcelos, (2022), which attested an explanation of 47%. Therefore, hypothesis H 4a was confirmed.…”

“…Incubator Actions (IA) have a great positive influence over A and present a path coefficient (PC) of 0.284 (p<=0.01), which validates hypothesis H 3. This result is supported by Arruda et al (2015) and Montenegro, Arruda, & Vasconcelos (2022). In their research, the actions taken by the incubators play a fundamental role in the entrepreneurial attitude and are responsible for explaining a great share of the entrepreneurial attitude (0.691).…”

“…Thus, hypotheses H4 b and H4 c were not accepted. Besides, when the individuals are entrepreneurs and are in an innovative environment, the ease or difficulty of behaviour achievement is put aside (Arruda et al, 2015;Montenegro, Arruda & Vasconcelos, 2022).…”

“…It is worth mentioning that the incubators' actions play a fundamental role in the entrepreneurs' attitudes (Arruda, D Rocha, & Montenegro, 2015;Montenegro, Arruda, & Vasconcelos, 2022). Among them is the need to make consistent planning of actions on the incubator's part to create a suitable environment that prompts and leads individuals to practice entrepreneurship.…”