An examination of the relationship between manager self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions and performance in mexican small businesses

Neri Torres José Luis () and Watson Warren ()
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Neri Torres José Luis: Universidad de Colima
Watson Warren: Universidad del Norte de Texas

Contaduría y Administración, 2013, vol. 58, issue 3, 65-87

Abstract: Self-efficacy refers to the subjective beliefs that people have of their capability to perform a given task, a topic of continual research in the last two decades in different fields of human functioning. There is ample research about the relationship between self-efficacy and performance, and with entrepreneurship. Chen et al. (1998) in particular proposed a construct to predict the likelihood of an individual being an entrepreneur, which they tested in parallel samples of students and small business owners and executives; the construct consisted of five factors: marketing, innovation, management, risk-taking, and financial control. The present study was meant to validate the construct in a sample of small businesses in a small city of west-central Mexico, but results found show that the data converge in three factors that seem to relate to the difficulty and complexity of the task; such factors explain the business perceived performance, as well as the entrepreneurial intention of business owners and managers.

Keywords: small business; self-efficacy; business performance; entrepreneurial intentions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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