Study on local productive arrangements in the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Yulien Herrera Díaz (), Antonieta Madeley Guerrero Veliz () and Alexandra Maribel Bautista Segovia ()
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Yulien Herrera Díaz: Doctora en Ciencias Económicas por la Universidad de La Habana. Escuela de Administración de Empresas. Pontifi cia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) Esmeraldas. Ecuador. Teléfono: 593984455975.
Antonieta Madeley Guerrero Veliz: Ingeniera Comercial por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Esmeraldas Departamento al que pertenece: Unidad de Proyectos. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) Esmeraldas. Ecuador. Teléfono: 593986124385.
Alexandra Maribel Bautista Segovia: MBA por la Pontifi cia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Esmeraldas. Escuela de Administración. Pontifi cia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) Esmeraldas. Ecuador. Teléfono: 593995520428.

Economía, 2017, vol. 42, issue 43, 85-111

Abstract: The socioeconomic conditions of the Esmeralda province in Ecuador and the necessity of their transformation starting from their local productive forms have been the main motivations for this investigation; having as an aim to detect the presence and characteristics of local productive arrangements in the city of Esmeralda. For this reason, a quantitative methodology was selected as a primary tool, demonstrating numeric data recovered from the processing of surveys that are also presented with the help of statistic tools. The study allowed to identify the presence of these structures within the city, while also showing that the previously mentioned form part of an incipient systemic organization situated between microenterprises that need the support of various institutions, this is of course stated after taking into account the potential that these productive improvements will bring for the region.

Keywords: Economic entrepreneurship; enterprise functionality; economic regional activity; productive arrangements. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L25 L26 O18 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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