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Chapter 8
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4195-1.ch008
ABSTRACT
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Jalisco represent one of the main entities
of economic activity that supports the bulk of the population living in the state; using
statistics as a fundamental tool for conducting studies in the economic, natural,
health sciences, among others, allows one to have proactive foundations for decision
making within companies by senior executives and in the feld public by ofcials
responsible for promoting the growth of the industry in the State of Jalisco. This
research tries to represent, under a statistical scheme, the use and disposition of
information and communication technologies (ICTs) as a tool to increase average
productivity levels within companies and under the Cobb production function.
Douglas determines the ICT impact.
INTRODUCTION
In Mexico as in the State of Jalisco, the economic effects of the economic crisis
suffered in 2008, as a result of excessive spending by Americans due to low interest
rates, triggering an imbalance in the mortgage sector, is identified as the main cause
of this crisis. For the country of Mexico as well as the State of Jalisco, the effects
were evidenced in the real economy when our exports and remittances from the
Innovation of SMEs and Their
Effect on Productivity in Jalisco
José G. Vargas-Hernández
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0938-4197
University Center for Economic and Managerial Sciences, University of
Guadalajara, Mexico