Medición de eficiencia y productividad en las pequeñas y medianas empresas del sector productor Metalmecánico del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito durante el período 2010 – 2015

Abstract

The purpose of this titling project is to carry out a study of the productivity and efficiency of companies in the metal-mechanic production sector of the Metropolitan District of Quito, with data taken from 2010 to 2015. For this purpose, 20 metal-mechanic SMEs were taken as a sample, and for the evaluation the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist Index were applied based on the DEA; and, with the results obtained from the DEAP 2.1 software, the analysis of efficiency and productivity was carried out, respectively. Analysis which shows that there are companies that are analyzed each year within the efficiency frontier or close to it, and others that are far from being efficient, on the other hand, productivity was analyzed in two periods of time, with which it was possible to determine the changes of the same one from year to another. Results that will serve as a baseline for any study that has a greater scope, and in turn, for metal-mechanic SMEs that need to reconsider their productive improvement strategies, considering that a company can achieve productivity, without necessarily having been efficient, since They have two different concepts, the same that will be understood in the development of the present investigation.