Open AccessDetermining factors in the social entrepreneurial profile of young university student
Author(s) -
Diana del Consuelo Caldera González,
María Guadalupe de Lourdes Acosta-Castillo,
José Antonio Ruiz-San Román
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal-schools of economic thought and methology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2523-6997
DOI - 10.35429/jsetm.2019.5.3.1.8
Subject(s) - adaptability , creativity , entrepreneurship , control (management) , value (mathematics) , sample (material) , psychology , component (thermodynamics) , knowledge management , social psychology , management , computer science , business , economics , chemistry , physics , machine learning , thermodynamics , finance , chromatography
Social entrepreneurship focuses on solving problems of a collective nature through new ideas that allow the improvement of the environment. This research aims to advance in the understanding of the crucial factors that profile the social entrepreneur, which represents new opportunities to identify, strengthen and design strategies from the University aimed at the creation of enterprises with social value. This research is quantitative, non-experimental and descriptive. A survey was applied to an incidental sample of 515 university students and the data was processed based on a Principal Components Analysis (ACP), which presents the factors that have the greatest influence on the two selected components. The coefficients found indicate that the first component is related to the factors: creativity and innovation; self-confidence or internal control; adaptability and tolerance to failure; while the second component receives a greater contribution in the factors: perseverance and commitment; adaptability and tolerance to failure; and finally self-confidence and internal control.