Intención emprendedora : una perspectiva desde el género.

Abstract

The main objective of this research work was to determine if there is an entrepreneurial intention among high school students between the ages of 15 and 18 in the city of Guayaquil. Likewise, the present project will demonstrate if there are significant differences between genres. The study has been focused on a quantitative perspective from gender based on the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991) with the purpose of addressing the phenomenon of entrepreneurship through the study of entrepreneurial intention. The present conceptual framework generated an extension of the model by addressing the study of the construct called perceived control of behavior including the study of the effect of perceived controllability and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the model (Ajzen, 2002, Monsen & Urbig, 2009, Sieger & Monsen, 2015, cited in Jácome, 2018). The research was approached under a confirmatory quantitative logic, from a deductive perspective and a post-positivist paradigm. The scope of the investigation is correlational and explanatory. The sample evaluated was 393 high school students. The data analysis was performed applying statistical techniques such as ANOVA contingency tables and the multiple regression analysis that allowed confirming the hypotheses. Similarly, confirmatory factor analysis was used to demonstrate the reliability of the instrument. As a conclusion, it was obtained that the entrepreneurial intention of high school students in the city of Guayaquil is explained by the entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The results also showed that there are no significant differences in the explanatory capacity of the model with respect to gender.