Management innovation and competitive success in medium and large companies in the peruvian manufacturing sector Rina Amparo Valencia Durand 1[0000-0002-6118-2333] , Aleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez 2[0000- 0001-9905-1489] , Olger Albino Gutiérrez-Aguilar 3[0000-0002-6657-7529] , Cintya Yadira Vera-Re- villa 4[0000-0002-9259-3987], Milena Ketty Jaime-Zavala 5[0000-0002-7534-6255] and Anthony Me- dina Rivas Plata 6[0000-0002-5118-5477] 1 Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, 04001, Arequipa, Perú ravalenciad@unsa.edu.pe 2 Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 15046, Lima, Perú aleixandre.duche@uwiener.edu.pe 3 Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, 04001, Arequipa, Perú ogutierrez@unsa.edu.pe 4 Universidad Católica de Santa María, 04001, Arequipa, Perú cvera@ucsm.edu.pe 5 Universidad Católica de Santa María, 04001, Arequipa, Perú mjaimez@ucsm.edu.pe 6 Universidad Católica de Santa María, 04001, Arequipa, Perú amedinarp@ucsm.edu.pe Resumen. Innovation from a global point of view allows establishing strategic objectives in the medium and long term; however, it is important to identify the dimensions or elements in which the organization needs to innovate in order to optimize resources and to really show a contribution to the company's sustaina- bility. This research seeks to know the relationship and the degree of correlation between Business Management Innovation and Business Competitive Success in the field of medium and large companies in the manufacturing sector of Metro- politan Arequipa. Under the quantitative, descriptive-correlational approach, and through a survey with 43 items applied to managers of 37 companies, medium and large, from the manufacturing sector in the city of Arequipa (Peru), a high correlation was found between business management innovation and competitive success (0.783), significant correlation of 0.776 between the product innovation dimension and business competitive success, significant correlation of 0.779 be- tween the process innovation dimension and business competitive success, cor- relation of moderate degree (0.556) between marketing innovation and business competitive success and correlation 0.605 between the organizational innovation dimension and business competitive success. Keywords: Business Competitiveness, Business Success, Business Manage- ment, Manufacturing Sector, Medium and Large Companies.