Profile of companies participating in the National Export Award
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Keywords
Precariousness, innovation, Networks
Abstract
Objective: Identify the profile of the companies that participate in the NEA in the Large Agricultural Exporting Companies (LAEC), through the information collection instrument, to the order to know business lines, state of origin and export destination.
Methodology: 17 questionnaires that the NEA applied to LAEC participants were analyzed in a period from 2010-2018in order to analyze the business lines, state of origin and export destination. The problem tree was carried out to find areas of opportunity and thus design solution proposals. The information collected was processed in NetDraw 2.097 to show the networks, the dominant players (countries to which they export) and the products that companies export the most.
Results: two business lines were found: vegetables, which was made a subnet of tomatoes and strawberries; and pork. Likewise, an open structured network was created made up of 17 nodes and 46 links, where three export destination countries stood out: the US with 15 links, Canada with six, and Japan with five. The most exported product was the tomato in its different varieties, mainly to the United State and Canada.
Limitations: the scant information on the award on the networks, in addiction to the restrictions to access it. In addiction, we ask some companies that have won NEA in LAEC category to answer a survey to find out what their opinion is about it,
there is about the award. In addition, some companies did not want to answer the survey, which would have been of great contribution to better understanding the NEA process and, above all, knowing the opinion that the winning companies have about the NEA. However, most of them did not want to answer the survey, which would have been of great contribution to better understanding the NEA process.
Conclusions: the degree of perishability of export products largely determines the number of destination countries. A great precariousness in Mexican agricultural exports was identified due to the fact the companies trade a single product or a reduced number to a single country.