Entrepreneurship and technological innovation: The micro-entrepreneur in Mexico

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Contaduria y Administracion Pub Date : 2022-05-13 DOI:10.22201/fca.24488410e.2022.4561

Martha Ríos Manríquez, Lizbeth Pérez Rendón, María de la Cruz Del Río Rama, María Dolores Sánchez Fernández

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship has gained importance in the field of research due to its ability to dynamize the economy. Knowing how technological expertise and access to financing influence business performance will enable micro-entrepreneurs to make decisions about technological training strategies within their company. Therefore, the aim of this investigation is to analyse and identify the influence between the Technological Training of Human Resources and awareness on the use of ICTs in business management on an ICT development level and access to finance, by micro-entrepreneurs of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. The methodology is quantitative and transversal, with data collection taking place between 2016-2017 and the informants being the owners or partners of micro businesses located in the municipality of Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. Obtaining from a population of 24100 economic units according to the National Statistical Directory of Economic Units of INEGI, establishing a sample of 379 companies with a confidence level of 95% and 5% sample error, via simple random sampling. The share corresponds to 21.11% of the total sample, and it is a representative sample as entrepreneurs have low participation due to the insecurity in the region. A model based on quantitative indicators which have an influence on business performance of Mexican micro-entrepreneurs is proposed. Nine indicators are taken into consideration; three from the Business Performance variable: 1) Customer Retention, 2) Asset yield, 3) Return on equity, and five from the Technological Expertise of Micro-Enterprises: 4) Technological Preparation of Human Resources, 5) ICT access, 6) awareness of the use of ICTs, 7) Use of ICT in the administration of the company, 8) Level of ICT development, and one from access to financing 9) Financing for technological preparation of the company. Concluding that while micro-entrepreneurs are aware of the importance of ICTs in their businesses, Celaya's micro-enterprises have a low level of technological expertise.

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企业家精神与技术创新:墨西哥的微型企业家

企业家精神因其激活经济的能力而在研究领域获得了重要地位。了解技术专门知识和获得融资的机会如何影响企业业绩，将使微型企业家能够在其公司内部就技术培训战略作出决定。因此，本次调查的目的是分析和确定墨西哥瓜纳华托州塞拉亚微型企业家的人力资源技术培训和信息通信技术在信息通信技术发展水平上在企业管理中使用信息通信技术的意识与获得融资之间的影响。该调查采用定量和横向方法，数据收集时间为2016-2017年，举报人为墨西哥瓜纳华托州塞拉亚市微型企业的所有者或合作伙伴。根据国家经济统计研究所《全国经济单位统计目录》，从24100个经济单位人口中，采用简单随机抽样的方法，建立了379家企业的样本，置信水平为95%，样本误差为5%。该比例占样本总数的21.11%，由于该地区的不安全因素，企业家的参与度较低，因此该样本具有代表性。提出了一个基于影响墨西哥微型企业家经营绩效的定量指标的模型。考虑了9个指标;三个来自业务绩效变量:1)客户保留率，2)资产收益率，3)股本回报率，五个来自微型企业的技术专长:4)人力资源的技术准备，5)信息通信技术的获取，6)信息通信技术的使用意识，7)信息通信技术在公司管理中的使用，8)信息通信技术发展水平，还有一个来自融资渠道9)公司技术准备的融资。结论是，尽管微型企业家意识到信息通信技术对其业务的重要性，但塞拉亚微型企业的技术专业知识水平较低。

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Contaduria y Administracion Business, Management and Accounting-Business, Management and Accounting (all)

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0.90

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14 weeks

期刊介绍： Contaduría y Administración (Accounting and Management)is a quarterly journal aimed to the academic community. Being peer-reviewed by double blind process,seeks to contribute to the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge in the financial and administrative disciplines. This journal publishes original theoretical or applied research (No case studies, descriptive and exploratory) in Spanish and English on the following subjects: • Organization Management • Production Management and Operations • Human Resources Management • Management of Information Technology • Accounting and Auditing • Management and Leadership • Business Economics • Entrepreneurship • Business Environment • Finance • Operations Research • Innovation and Technological Change in Organizations • Marketing • Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises • Planning and Business Strategies • Management Theory • Financial Theory • Business Decisions Contaduría y Administración (Accounting and Management) also receives research papers on related areas to the above mentioned.