The globalization of markets emphasize the entrepreneurship phenomenon. Cantillon is identified as one of the pioneers in the subject. In this chapter, the authors work this subject in the field of sociology, focused on agency and structure pleadings, understandable as a human action, which starts from a rational choice and with an action sociology. Based on a doctoral research carried out with the objective of identifying the profile of women entrepreneurs, this chapter seeks to stylize some material that was left open in the empirical elements collected, namely the role of entrepreneurial immigrant communities in the Algarve region and the interculturality present in the behaviors observed.
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This chapter ‘Migrant and Entrepreneurial Women on Algarve’ identify the study object as migrant women living in the identified region.
This object raises questions to answer by determining for that purpose, the objective: to identify entrepreneurial profiles. For this it is necessary to analyze attitudes and behaviors that characterize the patterns of this social group.
Likewise, this study assesses the economic, social and cultural impacts that these entrepreneurial women activities have on the region.
The entrepreneurship phenomenon has been the target of several studies, with an eclecticism of positions (Baptista & Leitão, 2015; Campos & Soeiro, 2016; Boava & Macedo, 2011; Carvalho & Da Costa, 2015; Drucker, 2007; Filion, 2003, 2008, Lundström & Stevenson, 2005; Macrae, 1982; Marques In Silva, 2016; Portela, 2006; Sarkar, 2010; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Schumpeter, 1934, 1947, Stevenson & Lundström, 2001, 2002).
Although he exists since long-standing - Cantillon is identified as one of the pioneers in the subject (Sarkar, 2010) - has now an increased relevance with the globalizaton timeline. Entrepreneurship is a politicized and therefore very sensitive and complex issue (Campos & Soeiro, 2016, Corrêa da Silva, Piganatelli e Viegas, 2015, GEM, 2017). Nevertheless, the subject should not be feared, it lacks more contributions and more investigations in this topic.
This chapter works the subject in the field of Sociology, focused on agency and structure theory (Giddens, 2000). Understandable as an human action (Boava & Macedo, 2011), which starts from a rational choice (Scheefer, 2013) and based in the action sociology (Weber, 2010), this study gives contributes to identify entrepreneurial profiles.
In this issue, the conceptualization of entrepreneurship is different from create a business. The first one is to have an original ideia and the other is to put on practice (Sarkar, 2010). As the investigator reflects, people can start a business without any new improvement, just copying another one. But people can never be entrepreneurial copying other ideias. Having an ideia is to be entrepreneurial, and then, putting it on practice is to be a manager. The same agent can also be both things (entrepreneur and business man) on different stages, but here the entrepreneurship is focused on human resources, who can be creative, and the concept of business is focused in mechanic thinks. Thus, the concepts, on a sociological vision are distinct (Boava & Macedo, 2011).