Reliability and Validity of an Instrument that Measures Entrepreneurship

Abstract

The process that goes from prospective decisions (oriented to risks of

maximum profits with respect to minimum insurance benefits) to deliberate

actions (oriented by avoidance of failures, based on the systematization

of errors and successes) is addressed in the present work, aiming to specify

a model for the study of Internet entrepreneurship. A non-experimental

study was carried out with a non-probabilistic selection of 135 entrepreneurs.

From a structural model, the reflective factor of the construct was

found to be deliberate actions, but such findings are only applicable to the

sample since the type of study, sampling, and statistical analysis suggest

the contrast of the model in other scenarios would increase the percentage

of the explained variance of its factors, that added to 57% in this case.