The MSME in Sinaloa: a comparative analysis of performance indices

Abstract

The business sector of Sinaloa is composed mainly of micro, small and medium enterprises. Understanding the conditions of the sector, its dynamics, evolutionary patterns and specially, their strategic challenges, is essential to understand the state’s economic performance and potential for future development. Thus, this paper analyzes the evolution of the set of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Mexico and particularly in Sinaloa from the Economic Census data from 1999, 2004 and 2009. This analysis includes the distribution of firms by sector and size, and presents a comparison between national and state trends, which allows the identification of significant differences in performance as well as the valuation of the challenges to be faced by companies that constitute the group of SMEs in the process of modernization and consolidation.