%0 Journal Article %T EMPREENDEDORISMO E COMPET¨ºNCIA: UM ENSAIO SOBRE COMPLEMENTARIDADE E CONVERG¨ºNCIA DOS CONSTRUTOS - %A Simone Ghisi Feuersch¨¹tte %A Graziela Dias Alperstedt %A Christiane Klein¨¹bing Godoi %J GEST£¿O.Org : Revista Eletr£¿nica de Gest£¿o Organizacional %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal de Pernambuco %X As well as studies on entrepreneurship, the debate about the individual competence privileges largely the description and quantification of personal attributes, evaluating performance and prescribing professional profiles. Based on this observation and from the redemption of the literature was revealed a possible rapprochement between the fundamentals of the two themes from another perspective, the dynamic character of the phenomena of human competence and its expression by the individual entrepreneur. This essay aims to correlate theoretical constructs competence and entrepreneurship in line with theoretical perspectives that realize these research categories in its multidimensional and complex relationship with other subjective dimensions of a context. The article, at first, presents a literature review on entrepreneurship and competence constructs, indicating convergent and complementary elements and, in the end, discuss how the meaning and characteristics of both can be correlated in the analysis of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship. %K Entrepreneurship %K Competence %K Dynamic approach %K Action %K Context. %U http://www.revista.ufpe.br/gestaoorg/index.php/gestao/article/viewFile/266/268