Desarrollo empresarial: una mirada a la evolución de las pymes en la provincia de El Oro.

Abstract

The PYMES of the province of El Oro address the most representative productive sectors of the Ecuadorian economy, it is known that they are the largest generators of employment, however, after taking a look at the evolution of the PYMES we can identify certain points that are completely negative, over the years there have been different situations that have caused the economy to fluctuate, For example, the earthquake in Manabí in 2016, the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, and other events that in one way or another allow production to stop, and in the worst case, a cessation of activities due to the lack of strategies or contingency plans to counteract the adverse effects of the aforementioned events. On the other hand, the generation of employment has had a drastic fall because of the same, however, institutions such as the Chamber of Commerce of Machala and also the CECOR, are those who have put themselves in front of the new entrepreneurs to offer them an impulse to innovate in their productions whose purpose is to satisfy the local and international markets and at the same time to generate added value. Similarly, the application of the mixed approach methodology with the research instrument, which in this case was an interview, allowed us to triangulate the information with databases, so that we could detect that although SMEs occupy most of the productive capacity of the province, they are not largely representative of the Gross Domestic Product of the country since they export raw materials, and not goods with added value.