Critical thinking and business skills: Key competencies in the training of entrepreneurs

Abstract

This article aimed to determine if critical thinking and business skills are significantly related in the training of entrepreneurs. It is a nonexperimental, explanatory causal investigation of a transversal nature with a quantitative approach. The study was carried out in a nonrandom sample of 60 students from the Faculty of Business Sciences of the Private University of Tacna. A questionnaire with a measurement scale of the Likert scale type was administered. The instrument was validated with the Crombach's Alpha method, with the following values, (0.88) for critical thinking and (0.91) for business skills. The results indicate that there is a high moderate relationship (C=0.44) between critical thinking and entrepreneurial skills. It is concluded that there is statistical evidence confirming that critical thinking and entrepreneurial skills are significantly related.