A liderança como elemento do comportamento empreendedor: um estudo exploratório

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Armond, Alvaro Cardoso
• Orientador(a): Nassif, Vânia Maria Jorge
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso embargado
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Palavras-chave em Português: empreendedorismo; empreendedor; comportamento de liderança; mudança organizacional
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: entrepreneurship; entrepreneur; leadership behavior; organizational change
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO DE EMPRESAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/23346

During the last decades, entrepreneurship has been given a lot of attention by researchers from many different fields. Its impacts over economic development, its role in making new technologies available and its power to socially transform cities, regions and countries, have stimulated the search for a better comprehension of the phenomenon. Although it s a relatively new field of knowledge, where the academic debate is yet very intense, it seems that there is an agreement on the fact that the entrepreneur is the pivotal element of entrepreneurship. This study was drawn from this assumption. A research was conducted aiming to identify the leadership behavior applied by entrepreneurs to promote the organizational changes required to consolidate and develop their businesses. The research is qualitative and exploratory, and was conducted through in depth interviews, with three entrepreneurs, which generated approximately four hours of report from each one of them. In order to be analyzed, the reports were submitted to categorization, based on the Yukl, Gordon e Taber (2000) theoretical model. Evidences were found that, in general terms, the type of leadership adopted by the entrepreneurs, aiming the growth of their organizations, is consistent with the leadership behavior presented in the literature, but that there are some personal and contextual factors, which would characterize leadership as an individual experience, influenced by environmental elements.