Entrepreneurs Versus Small Business Owners: an Approach Based on the Firm Size/Empresarios versus propietarios de pequeños negocios: una aproximación basada en el tamaño empresarial
In this paper we question the imprecise use of the term ‘entrepreneur’ that is frequently found in the literature about entrepreneurship. In this sense, we argue that the distinction between entrepreneurs and small business owners (Carland et. al., 1984; Chan y Lau, 1993) has an important analytical interest. The empirical analysis is based on data from interviews conducted among entrepreneurs and owners-directors in a sample of 385 SMEs in the province of Seville. From the estimation of several logit models, we demonstrate that it is possible to distinguish between entrepreneurs and small business owners considering their entrepreneurial behaviours (planning, exportation, product and process innovation and interfirm cooperation). Furthermore, we prove that this classification shows a statistically significant relationship with the size of SMEs. En este artículo se cuestiona el empleo poco preciso del término empresario que frecuentemente se encuentra en la literatura sobre “entrepreneurship”. En este sentido, se justifica el valor analítico de la distinción entre empresarios (“entrepreneurs”) y propietarios de pequeños negocios (“small business owners”) (Carland et al., 1984; Chan y Lau, 1993). El análisis empírico se basa en datos procedentes de una muestra de 385 PYMEs de la provincia de Sevilla en las que se encuestó a su propietario-director. A partir de la estimación de varios modelos logit, se demuestra que es posible distinguir entre empresarios y propietarios de pequeños negocios a partir de sus comportamientos empresariales (planificar la actividad, exportar, innovar –en productos y en procesos- y cooperar con otros empresarios) y que esta clasificación guarda una relación estadísticamente significativa con el tamaño de las PYMEs.
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