Enterprises In Mexico Research Articles

The management of finances in surviving MSMEs in 2022. After the financial impact of COVID

The objective of this research is to analyze the statistical data issued by INEGI (2022), where the MSMEs that were born are shown, those that closed their doors permanently and those that survived the financial pandemic by COVID-19, the methodology used is quantitative research, because it searches for and analyzes data issued by reliable sources, The companies under study had more changes and hit the economy much more than large companies, due to the high representation and job creation that occurred during the pandemic , resulting in a birth of MSMEs of 12%, against a closure represented in percentage by 12% similar and equal to the companies created during the pandemic, this type of company had as its main survival strategy, the adaptation of technological and digital aspects in their daily operation, was the resource that they highlight was used by the managers of this type of company. It is concluded that micro, small and medium enterprises in Mexico are the economic engine of the Mexican economy during and after the COVID pandemic.

How vulnerable are small firms to energy price increases? Evidence from Mexico

AbstractThe vulnerability of small firms to price shocks may partly explain why fossil fuel subsidy removals in developing countries are so difficult to implement. This paper analyzes the effects of fuel and electricity price increases on profits of micro- and small-sized enterprises in Mexico. Using representative cross-sectional data, simulations of profit losses hint at potentially large short-term effects. First-order profit losses of a 1 per cent price increase are 0.2 per cent for fuels and 0.07 per cent for electricity, but are higher than 1 per cent for fuels in the transport sector. These effects are larger for formal than for informal firms, with energy-using low-profit firms being most vulnerable. Second-order impacts – predicted using estimated input-demand elasticities – indicate that firms react to price shocks by substituting labor for energy, while the self-employed appear to increase their own labor input. Reduced-form regressions show that some firms pass on higher fuel costs to customers.

Correction to: Capacities of local maize seed enterprises in Mexico: implications for seed systems development

Correction to: Capacities of local maize seed enterprises in Mexico: implications for seed systems development

Success and resilience factors of rural enterprises in Mexico: RENDRUS case

Objective: To identify the success and resilience factors of rural enterprises in Mexico in order to contribute to the theoretical and empirical differentiation of these concepts. Design/Methodology/Approach: We used the National Network for Sustainable Rural Development Companies as a case study to formulate key questions to identify their success and business resilience factors. Results: Permanent job creation turned out to be the main success factor, and timely delivery of the product was the main resilience factor. Study Limitations/Implications: Recognizing the difference between success and resilience factors can help rural enterprises, their leaders, and decision-makers in the rural sector to understand and adjust their operating strategies based on their objectives. Findings/Conclusions: A success factor is a way to stand out among similar rural enterprises, while a business resilience factor serves to face adversity and continue over time.

Small and Medium Enterprises in Mexico and the Craft Beer Sector in Baja California: Dynamic Capabilities, Culture, and Innovation

This article studies how Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operating in emerging economies implement adaptative strategies to respond to constant changes in demand and global uncertainties, such as those stemming from the current SARS-COV2 pandemic. In this study the knowledge management capabilities used by SMEs in the craft beer sector in a region of northern Mexico are the focus of analysis. The objective is to present the competitive capabilities that craft beer sector has demonstrated in Baja California region and how small companies compete with the national industrial brewery and survive. Sources are data from a sample of companies and interviews with brewery owners, with which the analysis approaches, also, the Baja California business environment. The article highlights the routes of creativity, innovation, and symbolic capital of the companies in the region, and uses ideas from dynamic capabilities and knowledge management theoretical frameworks, to understand the craft brewery milieu. The conclusions in this article include the confirmation about the usefulness of these analytical frameworks based in the capabilities approach and the territorial knowledge. Also, the description of the existence of a complex Baja Californian milieu, where a multimodal scheme of craft beer characterized by different places of distribution and types of beer container, food-districts, at Mexicali, Tijuana, and Ensenada and a second generation of entrepreneur groups leading local business, is identified.

Capacities of local maize seed enterprises in Mexico: Implications for seed systems development

Where maize plays a critical role in food security, governments and donors have invested heavily in support of local, privately owned, often small and medium sized, maize seed enterprises (maize SMEs). Underpinning these investments are strong assumptions about maize SMEs’ capacity to produce and distribute seed to smallholders. This study assesses the capacities of 22 maize SMEs in Mexico that engaged with MasAgro—a large-scale development program initiated in 2011 that has provided maize SMEs with improved genetic material and technical assistance. Data were collected onsite from in-depth interviews with enterprise owners and managers and complemented with other primary and secondary sources. Overall, maize SMEs showed high levels of absorptive capacity for seed production, but limited signs of learning and innovation in terms of business organization and strategic seed marketing. Asset endowments varied widely among the SMEs, but generally they were lowest among the smaller enterprises, and access to business development services beyond MasAgro was practically nonexistent. Results highlighted the critical role of MasAgro in reinvigorating the portfolios of seeds produced by maize SMEs, as well as the challenges ahead for maize SMEs to scale the new technologies in a competitive market that has long been dominated by multinational seed enterprises. Among these challenges were limited investment in seed marketing, weak infrastructure for seed production, and limited experience in business management. Achieving the food security goals through maize SMEs will require making national maize seed industry development a strategic imperative.

Understanding the process of agricultural entrepreneurship: perspective from strategic movements and entrepreneurial families

PurposeThis study analyses the sequence of actions carried out by successful enterprises in the agricultural sector and aims to understand the logic followed with such actions and the differences related to the types of families that develop them.Design/methodology/approachThrough a multiple case study approach, the business and family trajectories of 14 successful agricultural enterprises in Mexico were analysed. The actions carried out by enterprises are conceptualized as strategic movements and are classified into seven categories: (1) growth and intensification, (2) reconversion, (3) diversification, (4) integration, (5) differentiation, (6) outsourcing and (7) digitization. Depending on their relationship with agriculture, entrepreneurial families are classified into three categories: (1) continuing families, (2) returning families and (3) incoming families.FindingsThe entrepreneurship logic follows three stages: evaluation, expansion and consolidation, through which different activities are tested, then the one that produces the best results is expanded and adopted as the main activity, and finally the expansion of the main activity and its evaluation are combined by comparing and complementing it with other agricultural activities. The difference is that continuing families adhere more to the traditional productivist model based on growth in scale and improved productivity of primary production. On the other hand, actions that imply a distinction in the quality of production such as integration and differentiation and that require links with other organizations such as outsourcing are more frequently carried out by returning and incoming families.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings obtained through case studies cannot be statistically generalized to a specific population, however, our perspective can be transferred to other cases to obtain analogous findings.Originality/valueThe study is a unique piece in terms of the analysis of how families with different degrees of proximity to agriculture develop successful enterprises.

Soft Systems Methodology Applied to Design Processes in an Artisan Enterprise

Given the tendency of design to intervene in marginalized artisan communities as a strategy to face the demand for their products, this research was focused on the difficulties that artisan enterprises face when moving from the family economic unit to a productive network structure with territorial span. For this reason, it was proposed to answer, how design processes should be integrated into indigenous contexts, in order to improve the systemic viability of these artisan enterprises. Together with the Viable Systems Model, the Soft Systems Methodology was chosen to intervene in a náhuatl artisan enterprise in Mexico. The results provide an environment-oriented design methodological model, to be implemented in small and medium- sized enterprises that wish to improve their ability to work as an integrated whole, and to adapt to the opportunities or threats of the environment. It is concluded that the systematization of the design practice contributes, not only to improving the artisan product, but also, to the strengthening of enterprises in indigenous contexts.

Using a franchise structure to scale affordable housing internationally

Capital investment as high as US$16 tn is required to address the shortage of adequate and affordable housing worldwide. Market-driven housing approaches that produce quality units, reduce dwelling costs, and provide access to a range of capital sources can help to solve this challenge. This article describes the experience of a social enterprise in Mexico that is taking its proven, market-driven housing solution to countries in Africa using a joint venture franchising company to execute a master franchising strategy. Its experience and the innovative approach it used to scale internationally offer useful insights and lessons for housing practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.

Social Enterprise in Mexico, a New Business Classification

Social Enterprise (SE) is an increasingly important sector for generating employment and distributing wealth in market structures. The social business type two (SB2)—a very specific type of SE—is a category that has challenged orthodox theoretical elements in its main assumptions and behavior in the markets. SB2 is mainly classified within the category of microenterprises because they have a very small number of employees. A new official business classification is important to differentiate enterprises not only by size, but also by type of behavior. There is a new indicator that compares the profit levels of microenterprises with the poverty line as a representative tool to classify Mexican microenterprises into profit seekers and SB2. When these outcomes are contrasted with a discrete choice model under the logistic functional form, the probabilities that this indicator classifies a microenterprise with entrepreneurship by necessity, installed capacity maximization and no profit seeking as SB2 is 80% for microenterprises up to ten workers, and goes up to 92% for microenterprises with one person. With such a new classification, better policies could be promoted to support SB2, and help address both the lack of opportunities from the market economy and poverty menace.

Reverse accountability and leadership: The next generation social entrepreneurial design

This study provides a qualitative analysis of collective entrepreneurial business design based on leadership styles of social enterprise and attributes of stakeholder driven reverse accountability. This study has been conducted using qualitative research method, by applying in-depth interviews to the entrepreneurial leaders of 25 start-up enterprises in Mexico. The content analysis was done to summarize the open-ended questions using software NVivo version 11. The study revealed that collective leadership is more effective as compared to an individualistic leader-driven entrepreneurial design. Social enterprises are transitioning to collective leadership models through implementation of organizational design based on reverse accountability. This study contributes to the existing literature by analyzing the impact of reverse accountability and collective leadership patterns on decision-making process of social enterprises.

Customers’ Perception of Business Model Innovation in Social Enterprises in Mexico

Social enterprises need to identify an innovative and differentiated business model to more efficiently meet the needs of their clients and survive in the long term. However, research on customer perception of this innovation is scant. Therefore, the objective of this research was to explore the effect of socially responsible consumption on the business model innovation perceived by clients of social enterprises in the service sector and its effect on satisfaction and loyalty. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted with 400 customers of social enterprises in the services sector in Mexico. Results showed that socially responsible consumption had a positive influence of perceived business model innovation. Perceived business model innovation had a direct, positive influence on customer satisfaction and an indirect positive influence on loyalty. The implications of the results were discussed.

Using an Educational Mobile Application for Learning the Essence 1.2 Kernel Alphas

Essence 1.2 is a standard that facilitates the study of Software Engineering by essentializing the broad empirical knowledge related to this area. The main component of the standard is the kernel, which contains alphas that make it possible to assess the state and progress of a software project through the use of a holistic thinking framework. This paper presents an educational mobile application, denominated as Alphalingo, with which to learn the alphas, and which promotes active and meaningful learning through the inclusion of various learning styles, gamification and spaced learning. The educational proposal was evaluated by means of a formal experiment and a replication, which were carried out with professionals working at two software enterprises in Mexico. The experimentation method consisted of randomly selecting the participants in order to form two groups: a control group, whose members attended classes in order to learn the Essence 1.2 kernel alphas, and an experimental group, which learned using Alphalingo. The statistical results obtained from the meta-analysis carried out indicate that the use of Alphalingo has a greater degree of learning effectiveness and a greater motivating effect than the face-to-face method.

Effects of collective intelligence and self-reference consumption on entrepreneurial productivity and quality in niche markets

This study analyzes the impact of customer segmentation, customer acquisition and retention, and customer behavior on entrepreneurial productivity and quality of the startup enterprises in Mexico. These enterprises tend to gain higher market share by implementing customer-centric approach through various variables such as demand stimulation, promoting their brand in ambidextrous market segments, product referrals, and cognitive variables such as psychodynamics, anthropomorphic attitude, and repeat buying behavior. Information gathered from 308 respondents was admitted to data analysis process. In all, information from 88% of the respondents was considered for data analysis. In view of the findings discussed in the study, it can be stated that the customer-centric approach of startup enterprises leads to anthropomorphic orientation among customers who are oriented toward technology and innovation. Startup enterprises encourage these customers to actively interact on digital platforms and inter-personal forums to promote a positive word-of-mouth leading to an increase in the purchase intentions by the potential customers.

Entrepreneurial Alertness, Innovation Modes, And Business Models in Small- And Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Exploratory Quantitative Study

Entrepreneurial alertness refers to the ability to process information and signals from the environment so that individuals can recognize business opportunities, whereas innovation modes depict the variation in firms’ approaches to innovation. Innovation modes have important implications in the way firms compete; however, little research has been done about the relationship among entrepreneurial alertness, innovation modes, and business model in firms. This study explores whether entrepreneurial alertness dimensions influence business models through their effect on firms’ innovation modes. Using survey data from analysis of 119 manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises in Mexico using structural equation modelling, this study shows that entrepreneurs’ entrepreneurial alertness dimensions have different impacts on innovation modes, which thus have different effects on the efficiency and novelty of business models

Impact of COVID-19 on the economy of micro, small and medium enterprises in Mexico

The objective of this research is to analyze the effects of COVID-19 on the economy and finances of micro, small and medium enterprises (MIPYMES) in Mexico, as well as the economic and financial strategies to survive this perfect storm, where the characteristic The main thing about this type of business is that it survives and is used to these events due to the way in which they are generally created and because they have a peculiar characteristic that the vast majority are family businesses. A mixed methodology is used that starts from grounded theory, is contrasted with findings from other national and international research that show the importance of analyzing the economic and financial effects for MSMEs. For the quantitative analysis, statistics of the companies that closed since the beginning of the pandemic were analyzed according to data collected by the INEGI Statistics Institute in 2020. As a result, it is obtained that the MIPYMES made use of their savings and previous returns, a change in the way of marketing their products, using online and home sales. This as economic and financial survival strategies in the red light months in each of the states of the Mexican Republic, and that affected all companies in the world.

An Exploration of Some Effects of Social Innovation Capability in Social Enterprises in Mexico

Social enterprises need to develop processes that create social value based on their initiative to find solutions to social problems through innovative strategies. The objective of this research was to examine the effect of social innovation capability, social marketing achievements and enterprise social performance as antecedents of social value creation in social enterprises in Mexico. An explanatory and cross-sectional study was developed for 106 managers of social enterprises in Mexico. A Structural Equation Modelling was applied using Partial Least Squares to test five hypotheses. The results supported that social innovation capability has a positive and direct effect on social value creation, social marketing achievements and enterprise social performance. Similarly, these last two showed a direct effect on social value creation. Particularly, it was identified that social innovation capability had the greatest effect on social value creation. The implications of the results are discussed.

La empresa social: contexto mexicano

Se busca determinar los factores del entorno que contribuyen a la existencia de empresas sociales en México. El estudio emplea información proveniente de diversas fuentes secundarias al recolectar diferentes indicadores sobre dicho país. Los datos son analizados a través del uso de la técnica de regresión logística y los resultados permiten corroborar un efecto positivo y significativo del acceso a la educación y la facilidad de emprender en la existencia de empresas sociales. En consecuencia, el estudio es un acercamiento al panorama que tiene México sobre el emprendimiento social y la empresa social.

Análisis cualitativo de modelos de negocio para el emprendimiento social

Objetivo: identificar las diferencias conceptuales, características y modelos de negocio que aplican los emprendimientos sociales y las empresas sociales mediante la investigación y análisis de los principales autores en los últimos 20 años con la finalidad de establecer aportaciones para el desarrollo de estrategias para su impulso.Diseño metodológico: investigación documental, análisis, discusión y comparación cualitativa.Resultados: el estudio del emprendimiento social se enmarca en dos escuelas de pensamiento, de la empresa social y de la innovación social. Se identifican diferentes modelos de negocio para éstos y se analizan cuáles aplican para cada escuela de pensamiento.Limitaciones de la investigación: el estudio del emprendimiento social y la empresa social en México se encuentra limitado a propuestas de cooperativismo y a estudio de casos individuales. No se encontró un enfoque que se diferencie en México o Latinoamérica.Hallazgos: el elemento en común del emprendimiento y la empresa social se encuentra en su misión social. Sus modelos de negocio se diferencian en cómo el emprendimiento se relaciona con sus beneficiarios y cómo se relaciona con el mercado. El emprendimiento social presenta mayor flexibilidad para la aplicación de modelos de negocio comparado con la empresa social.

Systemic complementarity, an integrative model of cooperation among small and medium-sized tourism enterprises in Mexico

Systemic complementarity, an integrative model of cooperation among small and medium-sized tourism enterprises in Mexico