Factores que afectan la productividad de las empresas. Caso Ecuador 2010.

Abstract

This study focuses on analyzing the productivity of Ecuadorian companies, through their own and contextual characteristics. The analytical part of the article surveys the vast literature devoted to productivity. From this framework, several testable propositions linking the companies’ size and investment in Research and Development (R&D), with productivity. To test these propositions, we use data from the Economic Census (2010), which contains information from 511.130 firms, given their nature, the methodology used is Quantile Regression. This study provides evidence that both the size of the companies and the investment in R&D have a positive impact on Ecuadorian companies' productivity, which is consistent with the existing literature.