Validity evidences for an entrepreneurial competences inventory to junior entrepreneurs

Abstract This paper was designed to verify evidences of validity for an entrepreneurial competences inventory for junior entrepreneurs in Brazil. Participants included 796 junior entrepreneurs. They answered an online questionnaire, containing the inventory of entrepreneurial competences of Man and Lau, which was previously adapted into Portuguese from Portugal and readapted into Brazilian Portuguese in this study. Exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were carried out with two subsamples of 398 participants. EFA indicated a five-factor structure, explaining 75% of the variance. Such a structure also presented satisfactory goodness-of-fit indexes in the CFA (χ2/gl= 2.58, p <.001; SRMR = .040; CFI = .93; and TLI = .93). The internal consistency of the factors (Cronbach’s alpha) ranged from .86 to .97. These findings suggest that the inventory presents evidences of validity for use in measuring entrepreneurial competences in an entrepreneurial training context.