Investigating the career choice intentions of students with family business backgrounds: the Portuguese case

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Luísa Isabel Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18438
• topic: Carreira profissional; Estudante; Ensino superior; Empresa familiar; Portugal; Career choice intentions; Family business; Portuguese students; Theory of planned behavior

This work’s main objective is to analyze the career intentions of Portuguese university students who have a family business has a background. This study is relevant in Portugal since the vast majority of Portuguese companies are a family business or started out as one. We ran a survey to Portuguese college students who have not started their professional career yet and who have a family business background. We studied some of their personal characteristics as well as some possible professional motivations such as the independence or innovation motive, when it comes to choosing a career path. We analyzed their preferences between the 3 possible choices: be a founder, be a successor or being an employee. In this order and according to the characteristics under analysis. The study revealed that, besides the fact that their characteristics pointed in other direction, our sample in its majority prefers to become an employee than a founder or a successor.