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Cielo Margarita Rodriguez Lopez ¹, Danny Daniel Lopez Juvinao ², Fabio Orlando Moya Camacho ²

Affiliations
1 EMPRENDEDORES, Universidad de La Guajira, Maicao, CO
2 IPAITUG, Universidad de La Guajira, Riohacha, CO

Abstract

Objectives: The main purpose of this article was to analyze the culture of entrepreneurship in public universities of the Colombian Caribbean region. Materials and Methods: A descriptive-analytical, transversal, non experimental and field-type of methodology was applied. The target population comprised the coordinators of the different agencies that deal with entrepreneurship in public universities in the departments belonging to the Colombian Caribbean region, to which a questionnaire was applied in order to measure the variable. Findings: It was concluded that an institutional educational project with vision and projection that anticipates changes, allows image positioning in terms of management and results with clearly significant and differentiating elements in order to promote a culture of entrepreneurship is required. Application/Improvements: Public policies of entrepreneurship were evaluated followed by a description of the missionary processes of the Caribbean Coast universities within the business culture, as well as the dimensions of the institutional management linked to entrepreneurship culture.

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Pasquale Raspa D’Inzeo ¹, Danny Daniel López Juvinao ², Fabio Orlando Moya Camacho ²

Affiliations
1 URBE, Rafael Belloso Chacín University, Maracaibo, VE
2 IPAITUG, La Guajira University, Riohacha, CO

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to analyze the SME-family businesses organizational behavior in the city of Maracaibo. Materials and Methods: The research type was descriptive, with no experimental, transectional, field design. The population consisted of eleven (11) managers and seventy-five (75) employees. The information was collected with a questionnaire with forty-two (42) reagents, validated by experts and with an Alfa Cronbach reliability of 0.826. The results analysis was descriptive with arithmetic frequencies distribution and means percentage. Results: The organizational behavior within the SME-Familiar companies is not adequate, characterized by a bureaucratic design, with a centralized authority, making it difficult to develop innovative activities that favor a work environment oriented towards the organizational objectives achievement. Application/Improvements: To improve the situation observed through the adoption of an organizational matrix-type design oriented to the authority decentralization, thereby improving the personnel supervision and the organizational objectives achievement.

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