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- Title
Revisión de literatura sobre mejora continua en MIPYMEs iberoamericanas.
- Authors
Jiménez Terrazas, Carmen Patricia; Manuel Argueta López, Germán Víctor; Espinoza Granados, Beatriz Margarita
- Abstract
This paper presents a qualitative systematic literature review of continuous improvement applied research in ibero-american Micro, Small and Medium Organizations (MSMEs) seeking to answer the following questions: what are therir characteristics (objective investigated, type and method of research and population)? and what are the findings?. The results analyze fourteen investigations with three main themes of continuous improvement: sustainability, productivity and implementation. 43% are qualitative research usign case studies and interviews methods and 43% are quantitative research using surveys and questionnaires. The population most studied are companies with 42.8% and the country with most studies is Spain with 35.7% of the investigations. Findings include identifying barriers and facilitators to sustainability standards, tools and techniques to implementation, some related to productivity and abandonment issues in implementation.
- Subjects
SPAIN; SMALL business; QUALITATIVE research; MODE of production; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Nóesis: Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 46, p140
- ISSN
2395-8669
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20983/noesis.2014.2.5