THE INTERMANAGERIAL COOPERATION IN AGUASCALIENTES´S MICRO BUSINESS LA COOPERACION INTEREMPRESARIAL EN MICROEMPRESAS DE AGUASCALIENTES

Teresa Valdez Silva, Maria de los Angeles Silva Olvera, Carmen Estela Carlos Ornelas and Zochitl Araiza Garza

Revista Global de Negocios, 2014, vol. 2, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: Cooperation in the current environment, has become an imperative for all companies, whether small, medium or large and dissemination has promoted its implementation (Gómez, 2005 in Araiza, Velarde and Zarate, 2008). This study identifies and analyzes inter-firm cooperation of micro enterprise in the state of Aguascalientes, under the following research question: What are the types of intercompany cooperation presented in the micro-businesses in Aguascalientes state. The sample was not probabilistic and the units of analysis were the micro enterprises that received support from the secretary of economy, located in the state of Aguascalientes and participated in the SME Forum 2012. The instrument used was designed by Araiza (2010) to measure the types of inter-firm cooperation and designed by Silva in (2010) and modified by Parga (2012) to measure the profile of an entrepreneur. The reliability of the instrument according to the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.925. We used descriptive statistics. The results show that companies located in Aguascalientes state capital include 30% which made cooperation, 40% do and 60% formal type casual. The results of the descriptive statistics show that 44.4% of the companies realize cooperation, 40% does it formally and 60% does it of an informal type. With regard to the profile of the entrepreneur, those that occupy positions of general manager, are those whose age exceeds 46 years, with an education of master and being in the main of the kind masculine and married. As for cooperation, the mostly applied is to administer and to a lesser extent innovate

Keywords: Firm Cooperation; Micro (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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