Proceedings of Annual Spain Business Research Conference
26 - 27 May 2016, Novotel Barcelona City Hotel, Barcelona, Spain,
ISBN: 978-1-925488-05-0
Entrepreneurial profile of small business owners in
Extremadura (Spain). A multiple case study
Francisco M. Generelo Miranda and Pedro E. López Salazar
This project analyzes the role of the entrepreneur, in three major aspects:
the psychological traits, the socio-cultural factors and the skills as a
manager, in order to define the profile of an entrepreneurial model.
It aims at finding out whether labour companies also implies a high level of
training of its workers that enables them to be efficient entrepreneurs,
managers, or both.
For the study of the enterprising profile of the worker-members who have
promoted the constitution of a labour company and who are in charge of it,
a multiple case study has been carried out in Extremadura (Spain).
The results show a few defining features of the enterprising profile.
JEL Codes: L26.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial profile, Extremadura, labour company, case study, small
business, entrepreneurship.
Name of Track: Management in general; Entrepreneurship in particular
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Dr. Francisco M. Generelo Miranda. Department of Business Management and Sociology. School of
Industrial Engineering. University of Extremadura (Spain). E-mail: fgenmir@unex.es
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Dr. Pedro E. López Salazar. Department of Business Management and Sociology. Faculty of Economics
and Business. University of Extremadura (Spain). E-mail: pelopez@unex.es