A importância dos componentes da orientação empreendedora para os participantes do EMPRETEC.

Abstract

Entrepreneurial orientation (OE) is understood as entrepreneurship at the organizational level and has been an important issue in entrepreneurship. Several authors affirm that entrepreneurial orientation can positively influence the performance of organizations. In Brazil, there are many actions aimed at entrepreneurship, one of them is the Seminar EMPRETEC, which is promoted by SEBRAE. The seminar aims to develop in the participants what is considered the ten characteristics of successful entrepreneurial behavior and such characteristics are similar to the five dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation. The present work deals with a quantitative research of the exploratory type, whose objective is to verify the dimensions of the entrepreneurial orientation and the degree of importance of such dimensions for the entrepreneurs who participated in the Seminar EMPRETEC in the agency of SEBRAE de Sousa-PB between the Years 2007 and 2012 and to achieve this goal, a questionnaire was applied with fifty entrepreneurs. After analyzing the questionnaires, it was verified that the most important dimension in the opinion of the entrepreneurs was the assumption of risks.