This Government procurement analysis has been made upon consideration: forewarn government interests using the procedures according to regulations; government support to SMEs; and strategies and government policies to boost public procurement. This research has selected the printing industry in the Metropolitan District of Quito, seeking to analyze the participation of SMEs in public procurement in the period 2010-2015, considering three variables: participation in award amounts and number of enterprises; procurement procedure used; and public entities with greater fiscal allocation. The analysis considers: the information from the National Public Procurement Service; Superintendence of Companies; and the results of research conducted with representatives of SMEs in the graphic sector. The aim is to answer the following questions: Do SMEs in the graphics industry know how to participate in public procurement processes? Have SMEs in the graphics sector been involved in public procurement processes? What is the participation of SMEs in the graphics sector in public procurement, in the past few years? This study presents the situation of the graphics sector in procurement processes and the ability to perform the same analysis to other sectors.

The economic development success of a country is closely related to its National Innovation System (N.I.S.) (Nelson, 2013). Our research question is about the today’s situation of innovation in the Republic of Cuba, because it could be the seed of a hypothetical S.I.N. So, our aim is to analyze the existence of statistically significant differences in Cuban small businesses performance by regions for the period 2011-2014 taking into account innovations and rationalizations implemented during the period 2006-2009. We also study whether the environment favors innovation. The results show that provinces with an index of innovations and rationalizations above average, get higher performance. In addition, we observe how those provinces that are in less complex environments, have a lower propensity to perform innovations.

The Entrepreneuria Orientation (EO) has emerged as a important construct in the last few years. It has been used as a variable that allows to evaluate the impact of the innovations, proactivity and risk taking in bussiness performance. Besides the numerous studies, the discussion about this relationship is still open. In this study examined the influence of EO and bussiness performance by using data from 41 mexican software firms located in Yucatan, Mexico. The findings show that EO are positively and directly associated with firm performance. The results confirm the positive relation of EO on a firm´s performance. These findings offer important theoretical and practical implications.

In the current literature on business and management sciences, researchers, academics and professionals have focused on the publication of theoretical and empirical research on the development and importance of organizational culture in companies, but relatively few have And studies on the relationship between entrepreneurial culture and corporate performance, and even more scanty are the theoretical and empirical studies that analyze these two constructs in an environment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The objective of this paper is to study the effect that business culture has on the level of performance of SMEs in the State of Aguascalientes, using a sample of 400 SMEs based in this geographical location. The results show that the business culture (clan, adhocratic and market) have a strong influence on the level of SMEs performance, but not hierarchical type culture.

Persistent financial crisis and the cases of corruption afflicting Spain have broken the trust of society that forcefully demands an ethical, responsible and sustainable management of organizations, which are not immune to environmental problems. The effects of globalization, the introduction of tecnoestructura as a management model, technological and socio-economic changes have reshaped the cultural, management and ownership system of the current company, the company nowadays is transferred the responsibility to combine growth and competitiveness with social development and environmental improvement. This reconfiguration of business management model is implemented with the introduction of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the strategic plans of the companies with the purpose of achieving a competitive advantage. The question is: can the most responsible companies be more profitable? The introduction of CSR in the organizational culture of the companies involved as a vector, accelerates the profitability of the companies that apply it: the higher level of CSR used, the more profitable the companies are. These conclusions are determined from a linear regression analysis comparing the ROA –return on assets– to CSR levels in a hundred companies with higher levels of sustainability that operate in Spain, according to a survey published in 2014 by the Monitor business Corporate Reputation (Merco)

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of knowledge and application of the management process in microenterprises of the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. This is intended to generate inputs to the transformation of microenterprises into better equipped, innovative and job-generating organizations in a highly competitive global context. The methodological strategy of this research was to gather information via a stratified sample of the management functions: planning, organizing, directing and controlling. The results indicate that the level of education and age of microentrepreneurs are the most significant variables to explain the different levels of the management process. In addition, the detected deficiencies in the administrative functions within the microenterprises of the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec are consistent with their life expectancies, which do not exceed four years.

SMEs play a major role in today’s economy all contributing both to the generation of wealth and the creation of jobs, so it makes sense this study to show the level of association between financial ratios to construct a synthetic measure that explains the size business for a sample of Catalan SMEs. To do three techniques of data analysis were used; Technical Cluster was first used in two phases (CDF) to define a correspondence with firm size, after obtaining the optimal number of clusters was estimated through a fuzzy analysis clustering, business size most likely for each company. The results yield evidence that the initial groups should not be three but two for 12,658 SMEs in Catalonia where a large proportion of small businesses called present financial information that might well classify as medium enterprises. The study provides a different way to consider business size.

The exhibit features Mexican microenterprises today give evidence of the problems that they face in terms of managing their activities, where the role of economic-financial elements is perceived. Although the issue has been addressed in previous studies the contribution of this study is to evaluate in an integrated manner the level of economic and financial management (GEF) in micro and impact on business results. To do an index is constructed from indicators synthetic methodology using the principal components factor analysis, accompanied by linear regression exercises. The results confirm the presence of elements of GEF in micro studied. Moreover, it was found that the extent to which GEF elements are incorporated in its activities, the impact on their business results will be positive. These observations constitute the prelude to the creation of public policies seeking to establish improvement strategies for such companies, besides that fosters future research for analysis but by sectors of economic activity.

The purpose of this study is to measure the degree of regional location of the electric-electronic sector of Mexico. Location coefficient was calculated using variables total employed persons and the total gross output; It was complemented by a shift-share analysis; both methods based on official information from economic censuses of 2004 and 2009. The methods used is descriptive techniques and the results generated depend on the selected period of time, they suggested that the electric-electronic sector is highly localized in the northeastern regions and northwestern Mexico, more specifically, in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas. However, the state of Baja California Sur has a zero activity in the electric-electronic sector. These findings provide support for the development of targeted policies to actions that promote the competitiveness of high-tech industry of Mexico. A future line of research is to expand the scope of the study to identify the most significant conditions for the electric-electronic sector of Mexico location.

This research aims empirically verify relationship between the intrapreneurship culture and innovation in companies denominated Spin-off academic of Costa Rican public universities. We found and studied 44 Spin-off academic, we use IBM SPSS statistics 19 Software and make descriptive and correlation analysis, are revealing that the more used practices are teamwork, risk tolerance and compensation and incentives; and to a lesser extent, practices of support of management and flexibility in corporate structure, and empower reviewers. About incidence of entrepreneurship on a Culture of innovation, the results showed that exists no effect on the variables of a) autonomy, b) risk tolerance, c) compensation and incentives and d) teamwork. However, a very positive and significant result was obtained for practice support of management and flexibility of the corporate structure, for processes innovation. These findings are important for academic entrepreneurs, as it enables them test the usefulness of a corporate entrepreneurship culture for the development of their organizations. They are also important for academic institutions, because allows them promote programs of research, training and consulting in the field of entrepreneurship, and thus achieve greater innovation and business competitiveness.