Incidencia del liderazgo en la intención de emprendimientos productivos formales en estudiantes de pre-grado en la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The present work or research project aims to demonstrate the intentions of undergraduate university students in the city of Guayaquil through the evaluation of leadership, as well as the factors that influence this intention. The research is grounded on modern theories of leadership that are based on interpersonal, cognitive, communication skills and specific tasks, as well as the planned behavior of Henley, Contreras, Barbosa and Ajzen (1991), where they indicated that the intentions are variable generated by: a) Leadership, b) Family social capital, c) Subjective rules, d) Perception of control and e) Attitude. The variables were studies in the theoretical framework together with topics related to entrepreneurial intentions. The sample with which we worked was 404 people taken in the random manner of the most important universities at Guayaquil level and measured through a questionnaire of 50 items with respect to the constructs and 7 demographic questions on the Likert scale. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was also carried out to the students, for the knowledge of if this was understood by them. Finally, through a correlation analysis and the p value performed, it is demonstrated that leadership is an influential factor in entrepreneurial intentions, having a weight within the 0.45 model on attitude and 0.52 in the perception of control, with an alpha of Cronbach of 0.954, this being greater than 0.70 and indicating that the instrument is optimal for this study, in addition to maintaining significant p values and reaching the conclusion that these must be of a very high rank for that intention to end in an action.