Competitive advantage of micro and small enterprises: a predictive analysis
Purpose: This study examined how strongly internal management components such as operations, marketing and managerial satisfaction explain the competitive advantage of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The guiding question was: which internal factors most accurately predict their competitive perfo...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Concepción
2025-07-01
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| Series: | RAN |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.udec.cl/index.php/ran/article/view/20245 |
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| Summary: | Purpose: This study examined how strongly internal management components such as operations, marketing and managerial satisfaction explain the competitive advantage of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). The guiding question was: which internal factors most accurately predict their competitive performance?
Methodology: The answers to a survey administered to 488 Mexican MSEs, selected from DENUE-2024 through stratified sampling, were analyzed. The CRISP-DM framework structured the workflow; Ridge and Lasso regressions, validated with ten-fold cross-validation and a 20 % hold-out set, quantified each factor's contribution.
Results: Internal management exerted the greatest influence on competitive advantage, with production and marketing emerging as dominant predictors. Managerial satisfaction and corporate social responsibility displayed additional significant effects.
Implications: Findings recommend prioritising the optimisation of production and marketing processes and designing policies that promote managerial well-being and strengthen MSE operational capabilities.
Originality: Integrating Systems Theory, CRISP-DM and penalised regression provides a predictive perspective rarely applied to Latin-American MSEs; the evidence narrows the documented gap on machine-learning applications to enterprise competitiveness in informal contexts. |
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| ISSN: | 0719-7713 0719-6245 |