Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FELIPE LUIZ NEVES BEZERRA DE MELO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : FELIPE LUIZ NEVES BEZERRA DE MELO
DATA : 26/10/2017
HORA: 10:00
LOCAL: SETOR V - SALA B-1
TÍTULO:

Peer Effect and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Essays on the Classmate’s Influence in The Propensity to Endeavor

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Peer effect. Network Analysis. Entrepreneurship. Instrumental Variable.

PÁGINAS: 100
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
ÁREA: Administração
RESUMO:

The school experience provides a unique socio-cultural exchange in which individuals in formation share experiences and behaviors with those around them, being influenced directly by their social context (Falck, Heblich & Luedemann, 2012). From a perspective on career decision making, the literature points out that entrepreneurial peers can influence an individual to start a venture because of the coexistence with employers can provide the flourishment of entrepreneurial skills as well as sharing of business opportunities (Kacperczyc, 2013, Field, Jayachandran, Pande & Rigol, 2015). The educational environment provides social interaction between individuals at a stage prior to their entry into the labor market, with the career decision being potentially associated with peer social influence (Markussen and Roed, 2017). Thus, the present study aims to estimate the peer effect of technological, and undergraduate courses on the propensity for entrepreneurship. Therefore, two methodological designs will be used to measure this relationship. The first methodological approach will be conducted through the Logistic Regression Model. In order to overcome the potential endogeneity present in social relations, Instrumental Variables approach will be included in this first essay. The sample will be composed by approximately 20 thousand students of an Institute of Technology, and the data collected covers the period 2000 to 2015. The dependent variable of this model is categorical, being assigned the value 1 if the individual has become an entrepreneur. As variables of interest, two proxies will be used to estimate who are the pairs of the focal individual: the first one will be the fraction of classroom of individual i at a time t, that have parents working as entrepreneurs. The second variable of interest will be categorical, being assigned the value 1 if the individual i is not entrepreneur and has performed his Course Completion Work with an individual who is an entrepreneur. It will be used as control variables related to the personal, social and economic factors of the individual. The second stage of this thesis will have a methodological approach based on Network Analysis (Jackson, 2010) to estimate with greater depth who are the pairs of an individual. To this end, students of an Institute of Technology will be surveyed by an questionnaire composed of 47 questions distributed among the dimensions of interaction with Peers, Entrepreneurial Intent, Personal Attitudes, Subjective Norm, Control Behavioral Perceived, Fear of Failure, Risk Aversion, and Role Models. In this second methodological step, the 2SLS regression method will be used. In order to estimate who are potential entrepreneurs in the sample, Entrepreneurial Index of Liñán and Chen (2009), composed by 5 questions measured on a scale of 1 to 10 on the entrepreneurial intentions of the individual, will be applied. As a considerable number of students will still be in school age, the instrumental variable “profession of the individual's parents” will be used to capture the propensity to entrepreneurship, being considered entrepreneurs those who have at least an entrepreneurial parent (Lindquist et al., 2015; Markussen and Roed, 2017). The variable of interest will be the geodesic path of the network, considering the least distance from the individual i to an individual who has an entrepreneurial parent. The expected result is that Entrepreneurial peers have a positive effect on the propensity to open a business.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - ANDRE CASTRO CARVALHO - FGV
Externo ao Programa - 2413052 - ANNE EMÍLIA COSTA CARVALHO
Presidente - 1510488 - LUCIANO MENEZES BEZERRA SAMPAIO
Externo à Instituição - RENATO LIMA DE OLIVEIRA - ASB