Programa Empreendedor Individual : uma avaliação preliminar na perspectiva dos empreendedores.

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Vianna, Marco Otávio dos Santos
• Orientador(a): Barbosa, Jenny Dantas
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Economia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Negócios informais; Empreendedor individual; Programa Empreendedor Individual em Sergipe
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Informal business; Individual entrepreneur; Individual entrepreneur program in Sergipe
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA::ECONOMIA REGIONAL E URBANA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4540

To encourage the micro businesses formalization, it was created a law in Brazil from 2009, of Individual entrepreneur-EI, which seeks primarily to minimize the vulnerabilities of the informal economy. From a unified action across the country, it was offered to individual entrepreneurs special conditions for business be formalized. This study aims to analyze the perceptions of entrepreneurs with respect to the Individual Entrepreneur Program in Sergipe and check how this influenced the results of their business. Specifically this study has the objective to draw entrepreneurs profile, define the characteristics of formalized businesses through the EI program, identify entrepreneurs perceptions with respect to changes in enterprises and describe the results achieved by entrepreneurs after participates on EI program. Survey was conducted with three hundred Individual Entrepreneurs who joined the program since its inception in Sergipe, June 2009. The information was collected through structured questionnaires applied personally with entrepreneurs. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and the results were compared to other research on the same program carried out in Brazil. It can be verified that the program in Sergipe achieved significant results, among them: adherence to program allowed the increase in sales by access to new markets and expansion of the supply of its products, in addition allowing entrepreneurs to hire labor to support business activities. Also highlights that the formalization of business also facilitated credit access to entrepreneurs. However, the participation of EIs in government purchase is still incipient, because they still do not recognize this sales as a large revenue potential.