SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN MEXICO AND THEIR TIES TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Jordy Micheli; Rubén Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.rpd.2017.06.003

SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN MEXICO AND THEIR TIES TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Translated title of the contribution: SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN MEXICO AND THEIR TIES TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

Jordy Micheli, Rubén Oliver

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This paper sets out to characterize the business dynamics of the software industries located in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Tijuana, beginning with a survey administered by the authors to 175 companies located in the aforementioned cities in 2014. The literature about this industry in Mexico has tended to favor theoretical approaches to innovation and learning and their subsequent application to local cases. This work relies on the logic of clusters (Porter, 1998) and therefore analyzes relationships with the local market in terms of sales and usage of human, financial, and informational resources, revealing regional differences in business dynamics. One important difference is the weight of local competition in Mexico City as compared with the two other cities.

Translated title of the contribution	SOFTWARE COMPANIES IN MEXICO AND THEIR TIES TO LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	37-59
Number of pages	23
Journal	Problemas del Desarrollo
Volume	48
Issue number	190
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpd.2017.06.003
State	Published - 1 Jul 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Mexico City
Monterrey
Software industry
Tijuana
industrial clusters
local development

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