Entrepreneurship has been consolidated as one of the pillars to country development, through generation of incomes and work to population. However, entrepreneurship is not centered only on the business world. Nowadays a new branch of entrepreneurship is emerging, known as social entrepreneurship, whose main focus is social mission. Therefore, social competence must also be part of entrepreneurs' profile, both individual and social entrepreneurs, so that they are able to develop cooperative work relationships. This study is inserted in this context and it aimed to identify the relation between entrepreneur attitude and social competence according to the perception of individual and social entrepreneurs. Thus it was conducted a descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The population researched consisted of 136 managers who are members of Santa Maria Young Entrepreneurs Association and 36 managers of social organizations registered at the Social Organização Parceiros Voluntários , to whom a questionnaire was applied, which was developed with basis on the model proposed by Lopez Junior and Souza in 2005, named Measurement Instrument of Entrepreneur Attitude (IMAE). The second model consisted of questions related to social competence defined by Baron and Shane (2007). Statistic descriptive analyses were done such as distribution of frequencies, Correlation of Pearson and the Mann Whitney's Non-Parametric Test. The results led to family influence as the main reason for entrepreneur activity choice among individual entrepreneurs, and living with another entrepreneur as the second reason, while to social entrepreneurs the main reasons were necessity of helping needy people/communities and living with other entrepreneur. The analyses referring to Correlation of Pearson indicated positive correlations among all the dimensions of entrepreneur attitude, and social competence as well. Comparing the two groups studied through Mann-Whitney's Test, the results led to the existence of a significant difference between individual and social entrepreneurs regarding the social dimension. The other dimensions showed statistically no significant results to the two groups, and the social competence as well. / O empreendedorismo vem se consolidando como um dos pilares para o desenvolvimento do país, por meio da geração de renda e empregos para a população. No entanto, o empreendedorismo não está centrado somente no mundo dos negócios. No contexto atual emerge uma nova vertente de empreendedorismo, conhecida como empreendedorismo social, cujo foco principal é a missão social. Dessa forma, a competência social também deve fazer parte do perfil dos empreendedores, tanto individuais quanto sociais para que possam desenvolver relacionamentos cooperativos de trabalho. Inserido neste contexto, o presente estudo teve o propósito de identificar a relação entre a atitude empreendedora e a competência social na percepção de empreendedores individuais e sociais. Para tanto foi realizada uma pesquisa de caráter descritivo com uma abordagem quantitativa. A população foi composta por 136 gestores de empresas associados na Associação de Jovens Empreendedores Santa Maria e 36 gestores das organizações sociais cadastradas na Organização Parceiros Voluntários, aos quais foi aplicado um questionário estruturado a partir do modelo proposto por Lopez Junior e Souza em 2005, denominado Instrumento de Mensuração da Atitude Empreendedora (IMAE). O segundo modelo abordou questões relacionadas à competência social definidas por Baron e Shane (2007). Foram realizadas análises estatísticas descritivas como distribuição de freqüências, Correlação de Pearson e o Teste não Paramétrico de Mann- Whitney. Os resultados apontaram que o principal motivo para a escolha da atividade empreendedora entre os empreendedores individuais foi a influência familiar e o segundo motivo foi a convivência com outro empreendedor, enquanto que para os empreendedores sociais a necessidade de ajudar comunidade/pessoas necessitadas e a convivência com outro empreendedor, foram os principais motivos. As análises referentes a Correlação de Pearson indicaram correlações positivas entre todas as dimensões da atitude empreendedora, assim como para a competência social. Ao comparar os dois grupos pesquisados por meio do Teste Mann- Whitney, os resultados apontaram a existência de uma diferença significativa entre os empreendedores individuais e sociais na dimensão social. As demais dimensões apresentaram resultados estatisticamente não significativos para os dois grupos, bem como a competência social.

The role of social networking has widely been embraced in an entrepreneurial context due to its nature of providing easy access to information, support and other complementary resources needed for the creation and development of entrepreneurial venture (Omta et al., 2001; Johannisson,1990 cited in Song et al., 2017). The entrepreneurs’ network is affiliated with the study of social relations that can influence the creation and development of new business by shedding light on the functionality of social ties in the diffusion of resources that are vital for the establishment of firms (Greve, 1995). Therefore, studying the field of entrepreneurship in the context of social network can offer a fruitful perspective on entrepreneurship (Greve, 1995).Despite the vast and diverse research in the field of networking and entrepreneurship, there are still some gaps concerning what is actually going on in a network and the understanding about network operation, their nature and role in influencing business performance still limited to fairly broader and theoretical perspective (Jack, 2005). So, in line with these views, the purpose of this study is to explore and enhance the understanding of the networking in an entrepreneurial context by shedding light on the role of strong and weak social ties. The foundation of this study relies on Granovetter’s (1973, 1985) strong and weak tie hypothesis and Jack (2005) work, that by highlighting the characteristics, formation, and outcome of strong and weak social relationships contribute to building the concept of entrepreneur’s social network.A multiple case study of five entrepreneurs, operating their networks and businesses in Linköping, Sweden, has been conducted to achieve the purpose of this study. This research work uses a qualitative approach and is based on the semi-structured interviews, which allows a deeper insight into the studied area through analysis of multiple cases.The result of this study indicates that both the strong and weak social ties, in which an entrepreneur is bonded, are used to a varying level in terms of information flow. Strong relationships, that relies on frequent interaction, hold great importance in providing quality information as compared to weak relationships but simultaneously accountable for providing information that is useless and not up-to date. On, the other hand weak-ties contacts are dispersed in a social network and rarely interact with each other. But these weak connections are also important and play their role once get activated by entrepreneurs. Considering the information flow weaker relationships also occurred to be useful however the relatively small size of the town can mean that similar information is repeated by several connections. Since, the aspect of individual knowledge and experience help in the formation of new relationships but the result of this study highlights that, a personal motivation and drive towards networking also plays a crucial role in the formation of both strong and weak ties.The study findings can benefit the researchers and the entrepreneurs in developing their knowledge about networking and role of social ties in providing access to information and resources necessary for the creation and the development of venture. However, the strong connections hold a dominant position concerning the information and the resource flow but weak connections are also crucial and provide support in areas that strong connections lack. Thus, the entrepreneur that keeps the balance between both his/her strong and weak connections can efficiently reap the benefit of social networking.

The purpose of this study was to assess the financial literacy continuing profession education cognitive needs of Florida small business owners through exploring their profile. To determine the financial literacy profile, an instrument containing 18 tested knowledge and 5 self-assessed knowledge questions was created. Using a panel of experts, the instrument was developed from previously tested financial literacy questions from several sources. Data were collected from clients of the West Central Region of the Florida Small Business Development Center at the University of South Florida. The online survey completed by participants included demographic questions to provide data to profile small business owners’ financial literacy by gender, age, education level, and small business classification. The results indicated small business owners have a high financial literacy. There were significant differences found between the financial literacy of men and women. Men’s scores were higher for both tested knowledge and self-assessed knowledge. Younger small business owners scored lower than older small business owners. There were significant scoring differences between the highest and lowest levels of education. Tested scores and self-assessed scores increased with higher education levels. Pre-venture/start-up business owners scored lower than the small-medium enterprise owners. Implications included developing educational programs attentive to women small business owner’s needs, as well as newer and/or younger small business owners.

Agent économique de premier plan et source de croissance, l'entreprise voit sa constitution encouragée, d'autant plus en période de crise. Parmi toutes les formes d'exploitation d'une activité, c'est l'entrepreneur individuel qui retient le plus l'attention en ce qu'il expose totalement son patrimoine, voire celui de sa famille, aux risques de la vie des affaires. La notion civiliste de patrimoine et son principe d'unicité paraissent à ce titre inadaptés aux réalités de l’entreprise. L’entreprise repose en effet essentiellement sur des fondements économiques qui varient dans le temps et dans l’espace, rendant son appréhension par le droit difficile. Pourtant, le législateur français s’efforce de protéger ce patrimoine privé par différentes mesures plus ou moins efficaces : la déclaration notariée d’insaisissabilité, la fiducie, le statut d'entrepreneur individuel à responsabilité limitée (EIRL), entre autres. Aussi, en consacrant la technique du « patrimoine d'affectation » (fiducie et EIRL), le législateur a fini par sacrifier l'unité du patrimoine. L'intégration croissante dans le droit de cette notion exogène qu'est l'entreprise n'est donc pas sans incidence. Si le patrimoine est désormais devenu divisible, la reconnaissance d'une entreprise permet également, dans certaines hypothèses, de réunir des patrimoines jusque-là autonomes. Face à ce phénomène dual, une définition juridique de l'entreprise s'avère nécessaire car bien qu'incontournable, l'entreprise n'en reste pas moins une inconnue pour le juriste. L'étude de ce couple - entreprise et patrimoine - poursuit donc un double objectif : s'il s'agit d'analyser l'efficacité de la protection du patrimoine privé de l'entrepreneur face aux risques d'entreprise, encore faut-il cerner au préalable ce que revêt, en droit, cette notion d'entreprise. / Businesses are not only a driving force in the economy, but also a source of economic growth and therefore logical to see their creation being encouraged in times of economic crisis. Amongst all the different ways to run a business, a sole proprietorship draws attention the most because of the absence of legal distinction between the owner and the business thereby exposing his own “patrimoine1” as well as his family’s to the risk of doing business. In French law, the “patrimoine” is regarded as united as a whole. Such a principle seems rather unsuitable to practical business. The foundation of all business depends on economic variables which constantly fluctuate both in time and in space, rendering its understanding in law very difficult. Despite this difficulty, French lawmakers do their utmost to try and protect the owner’s “patrimoine”. Statutory measures have been adopted, such as “la déclaration notariée d’insaisissabilité2”, “la fiducie3”, the sole proprietor with limited liability status (EIRL), to name only a few. However, these measures were not exactly successful. For the sake of efficiency, lawmakers finally did away with the principle of unicity of the “patrimoine”, allowing assets to be labelled as special-purpose assets (fiducie and EIRL). It is becoming obvious that the progressive introduction of the exogenous notion of business in the legal sphere has consequences. Acknowledging the existence of a business allows not only to divide assets but also to merge what used to be autonomous entities.In the light of such new possibilities, defining the notion of business in legal terms has become a necessity. Studying such a tandem business/asset, has a double goal : to evaluate the efficiency of the owner’s private assets legal protection against business risks ; to try and define the notion of “business” in French law.

The aim of this diploma thesis was to compose the business plan for the new company which is going to start running the restaurant and to check whether this project is real and profitable. The teoretical part considers characteristics of successful entrepreneur and circumstances which needs his attention. The practical part contains the real business plan which is usable for a potential investor.

Presents a comparison of individual entrepreneurs and companies with limited liability. It deals with the tax burden, red tape and-registry duties above types of businesses. It also aims to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages.

The aim of this thesis is to write a business plan of CRED0 Company Ltd. and assess its feasibility and return. The theoretical part describes key aspects relevant to the business and writing a business plan. The practical part includes PEST and SWOT analysis, goals analysis, analysis of market competition and risk management, marketing and financial plan.

Czech economic depends on small and medium enterprises that represent 99.84 % of all active Czech enterprises. Every single region in the Czech Republic is strongly interconnected with SMEs. Every entrepreneurial subject similarly to every person has its parent the founder that set up, managed and developed the business. Despite the enormous progress the humans have made one thing we cannot change and that is the simple time going by and with it related growing old and mortality of humans. There always comes the time in the life of every business founder to leave their business. Further existence of the business unit depends on what exit path the entrepreneur-founder chooses and how he handles this process. Its further existence is the key for the stability of economics and influences the inhabitants' welfare in the region, the business unit comes from. The enterprise can lose or earn much when the founder leaves. The leadership change is a huge intervention in functioning enterprise, and becomes a milestone in its next existence. The European Commission's Directorate General Enterprise and Industry stated that "Approximately one third of European enterprises will need to be transferred to the next generation in the coming 10 years. This means that an average of 610 000 small and medium-sized enterprises will be changing hands each year, potentially affecting 2.4 million jobs." Considering this I carried out the first research among the Czech entrepreneurs about their exit from their businesses so far. Based on this research I can state that the question of entrepreneurial exit is topical for interviewees. More than a half of respondents applied themselves to this question more or less, however only 30 % of them are prepared for the entrepreneur's exit and have a prepared plan. Next 30 % of respondents' firms are endangered by sudden incident because they have no plan for the case of the entrepreneur's exit. One half of interviewees that have already thought about heir exit would like to leave their business in a 5-year-horrizons. Whether the entrepreneur addresses his entrepreneurial exit or not depends mainly on his age, time spent by building the business and the number of employees. The entrepreneurs are attached to their businesses and they retire only reluctantly. The least of interviewees (only 2 % of entrepreneurs) would choose the complete transfer to another family member, i. e. not only passing the manager's post but also the whole ownership share. On the contrary most of the respondents would like to keep at least some ownership share and pass only the control over the firm. Some of the exit path factors are the entrepreneur's age, motivation to set up the business, current situation and expected future progress of the firm, and engagement of other family members within the business. All interviewees that had clear plan of their entrepreneurial exit and would choose passing the business to other family member were pushed into starting the business. When the respondents perceived the current business situation as positive they preferred such exit path that their business would survive. At the same time they would not choose business liquidation when they expected positive further development of the firm. Out of 14 respondents that would like to pass the control to their family member, 65 % stated that other family members were engaged in the business. The higher the age of the entrepreneur the higher the probability that the leaving entrepreneur will pass their business to their family member in some way.

My Master's Thesis is focused mainly on entrepreneur who decides to change the legal form of businness and to establish a limited liability company. For this reason I started with the characteristics of both legal forms of business firstly and then I stated all possible ways to establish limited liability company concernig legal, accounting and fiscal point of view. At the same time I was aiming to point out pros and cons of setting up a limited liability company which may affect the future profitability of business.

This Master's Thesis deals with the balance between an entrepreneurship and a personal life. Its main goal is to identify which factors have or don't have an impact on the balance between an entrepreneurship and a personal life. As a part of the theoretical section I defined components of balanced life, the consequences of imbalances and recommendations how to get a life into a balance. Additionally, there are described important parts of entrepreneurship. For my methodological section I established the list of standards how to choose a suitable entrepreneurs for my research as well as research methods (incl. personal interviews with every single entrepreneur) and data evaluation system. This methodological section justifies and determines the way in which the balance is measured. In my practical section I examined a sample of 40 entrepreneurs (majored in restaurant business). During the research I tried to find a statistical significance among groups of entrepreneurs. The research results leads to the conclusion that the balance between an entrepreneurship and a personal life depends on qualitative rather than on quantitative features.