Collaboration and innovation activities in SMEs

Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres (), Gonzalo Maldonado Guzmán, Sandra Yesenia Pinzón Castro and Ricardo García Ramírez
Additional contact information
Gabriela Citlalli López-Torres: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México
Gonzalo Maldonado Guzmán: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México
Sandra Yesenia Pinzón Castro: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México
Ricardo García Ramírez: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México

Contaduría y Administración, 2016, vol. 61, issue 3, 568–581

Abstract: At present, in the literature review on management science there is a growing interest between researchers and academics in collaboration as a business strategy, even more in countries under development, for example México, and its relation with innovation activities. At the same time, the collaboration concept and its potential application in innovation activities in companies, especially in small and medium enterprises is a topic poorly analyse from this angle in the current research. Therefore, the objective of this empirical study is to identify the current relationship between collaboration and innovation activities in small and medium enterprises based in Aguascalientes, México. The results obtained, and explained in this paper, have demonstrated that there is a positive and significant impact on small and medium enterprises innovation.

Keywords: Collaboration; Innovation; Small and medium enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cya.unam.mx/index.php/cya/article/view/1131 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nax:conyad:v:61:y:2016:i:3:p:568-581

Access Statistics for this article

Contaduría y Administración is currently edited by Francisco López-Herrera (Editors in Chief)

More articles in Contaduría y Administración from Accounting and Management Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alberto García-Narvaez (Technical Editor) ().