A project manager as a leader is the key element to assure the success of the ventures he/she is responsible for and to implement the organization strategies. Besides, the project manager can be very important to the future of the organization by applying entrepreneur skills aiming at needs and new opportunities. However, he/she has operational responsibilities such as planning, monitoring, and accounting and control of the project which can, some times, conflict with characteristics of an entrepreneur. Therefore, it is relevant to evaluate whether a project manager has the required entrepreneur skills which when combined the skills of a manger result in successful projects. In order to perform this evaluation, a study with 164 graduate and highly experienced project managers, most men, was carried out. A Nonparametric analysis indicated that the greater the project manager’s entrepreneur tendency, the more successful the projects can be conceived. The creative tendency proved important since the results demonstrated a number of success criteria associated.
Project manager; Corporate entrepreneurship; Project success; Enterprising tendency
