Microempreendedores Individuais E Suas Competências Empreendedoras No Município De Porto Nacional - TO

Abstract

Brazil has always stood out worldwide as the country of opportunities and the stimulus to entrepreneurship, which represents, for thousands of people, the option to have their own business. Seeking better conditions for these entrepreneurs and offering alternatives to informality, on December 19, 2008, Complementary Law No. 128 was created, which created the legal figure of the Individual Microentrepreneur (MEI). In this sense, the main objective of this study was to identify the existence of entrepreneurial skills in individual microentrepreneurs, based on the theory of Cooley (1990) adapted by Lenzi (2008), in the city of. This is a quantitative, exploratory and descriptive research carried out with 68 individual microentrepreneurs. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire composed of 30 questions regarding entrepreneurial skills and 6 multiple choice questions related to the demographic profile. The result of the study showed that the individual microentrepreneurs of the city of Porto Nacional - TO have the entrepreneurial profile, according to Cooley 's theory, because they present a relevant proportion in the persistence characteristic, they are committed, independent and self - confident people. However, they need to improve in their pursuit of information, in seeing market opportunities and their risk propensity