Intenção empreendedora: um estudo com alunos de graduação do curso de Ciências Contábeis da UFSM

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduate students of the Course of Accounting Sciences of the Federal University of Santa Maria. For this, the research is classified as quantitative, descriptive and survey. Data collection was done through the Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (QIE) by Liñán and Chen (2009), validated in Brazil by Hecke (2011). The questionnaire was applied to a population of 392 students, regularly enrolled in the course, the sample included 202 questionnaires, with respondents distributed from the first to the tenth semester. The results indicate that the students' intention to undertake is low, this result was reinforced through Pearson's correlation. Students who participated in subjects related to entrepreneurship, those who were working and those who were attending at night showed an intention to undertake higher in relation to the others. When analyzing the entrepreneurship intention per semester, it was verified that in the last year, especially in the last semester, the students presented very low values of entrepreneurial intention in comparison with the other semesters. The contribution of the study is in the conclusion that the students researched, in general, do not aim to undertake, in this sense, it is incumbent on a greater incentive, motivation and promotion of the entrepreneurial behavior in the respective course. The study was limited to the application of the cross-sectional questionnaire. For future studies it is suggested to conduct interviews with the students in order to bring the particularities of the intention to undertake, in addition to carrying out the research periodically, in order to follow the development of a more entrepreneurial behavior.