Social and private entrepreneurs: reflections about their behavioral characteristics

Authors

  • José Elmar Feger Universidade do oeste de Santa Catarina
  • Augusto Fischer Universidade do oeste de Santa Catarina
  • Tânia Maria dos Santos Nodari Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina
  • Dirceu Scaratti Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina
  • Anacleto Angelo Ortigara Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22277/rgo.v1i2.47

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been arousing interest either in the academic environment as much as in the business and public environment, especially for its importance in job and income generation. It is observed that the growing number of researches dealing with specific subjects of entrepreneurship,
especially in the sense of demonstrating its importance as a generator of innovations, in the private business sector, as in the third sector, or in the public sector. Those works have been discussing the differences among the several entrepreneurship types. The proposal of this work, whose results are here presented, is to verify if there really are differences between the social and private entrepreneurs, from the perspective of their attitudes and actions. By means of descriptive research using the survey method with quantitative approach, it was verified, at least in what it concerns to the sample, that, in a general way, there aren’t significant differences between the scores reached by the social entrepreneurs and the private ones in relation to the characteristics of entrepreneur behavior.

Author Biographies

José Elmar Feger, Universidade do oeste de Santa Catarina

Administrador, Mestre em Desenvolvimento Regional (FURB), Doutorando em Desenvolvimento Regional (UNISC), professor da Área das Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina.

Augusto Fischer, Universidade do oeste de Santa Catarina

Administrador, Mestre em Engenharia da Produção (UFSC), Doutor em Administração (USP), professor da Área das Ciências Sociais Aplicadas da Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina.

Tânia Maria dos Santos Nodari, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina

Professora da Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina, Mestre em Administração de Negócios (FURB).Doutoranda na Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla.

Dirceu Scaratti, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina

Doutor em Engenharia de Produção (UFSC), Professor da Unoesc.

Anacleto Angelo Ortigara, Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina

Doutor em Engenharia de Produção (UFSC), Diretor Técnico do SEBRAE-SC, Professor da Unoesc.

Published

2008-12-29