Transexennial Analysis of Strategies Aimed at Promoting Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Mexico

Abstract

Micro, small and medium enterprises represent a strategic sector that contributes significantly to relevant national indicators in terms of the level of employability, productivity and, to a lesser degree, traditional innovation. In this work, a descriptive documentary research is shown carried out through a documentary review of primary and secondary sources on the subject related to business promotion policies in a period between 1930 and 2018 to determine common factors in the strategies implemented by different governments. Based on the identification of relevant transversal factors between government programs, a statistical analysis is made with linear regression using strategic indicators generated by the National Survey of Business Productivity and Competitiveness (ENAPROCE), carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography in the 2015. The reason is to validate the importance of the factors that were supported by the government plans for MSMEs in terms of reported sales, which includes the analysis of standardized data in absolute values based on variables related to the sales reported in the period covered by the survey, the number of companies that received government support, provided training, declared themselves to be government suppliers and participated in production chains. The results obtained in the linear regression analysis reveal that the amount of support acquired by the Government, the membership of production chains, as well as the processes and investment in the training provided are significant variables to explain the behavior of sales of MSMEs.