História de vida empreendedora: a experiência do empresário Josias Nunes Peixoto no comércio de Itabaiana/SE.

Abstract

The personal characteristics of an entrepreneur, the factors that influence their choices, their actions and behaviors are the source of relevant information contained in the entrepreneurial life history and useful for understanding the process(es) of creating a business. The objective of this study was to look at the life story of entrepreneur Josias Nunes Peixoto with the focus on skills and knowledge that contributed to his formation and performance in the local market. The use of life history emerged as an adequate method to understand the knowledge and skills developed in the life trajectory of the entrepreneur in the supermarket sector. The instrument for collecting information was the semi-structured interview. Content analysis was used as a technique for data processing. As a result, there is a description of the interviewee's entrepreneurial life story. It was possible to understand the relationship between the competences and knowledge constituted and the reproduction of the practices and processes of entrepreneurial learning, signaling them as complex and linked to a network of individual practices.