Abstract

BUENROSTRO MERCADO, Héctor Edgar  and  HERNANDEZ EGUIARTE, María del Carmen. The Incorporation of ICT in Firms. Factors of the Digital Divide in MSMEs of Aguascalientes. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2019, n.50, pp.101-124. ISSN 2448-7481.  https://doi.org/10.24275/etypuam/ne/502019/buenrostro.

The incorporation of ICT in companies is considered as an element that increases their competitiveness through greater productivity, efficiency and profitability of investment. But its effect depends on the characteristics of technology, the environmental conditions, as well as the internal capacities of firms. In the present paper, the objective is to identify what are the internal factors of MSMEs that affect the incorporation of ICT within their production activities, from the proposals stages by the un and ECLAC, starting from a Probit model, made with data from a survey applied to 1,006 companies in the state of Aguascalientes. The results show that the differences in the incorporation of ICT are mainly due to the knowledge and skills of the workers and managers of MSMEs and specialized equipment, which is reflected in greater flexibility for the incorporation of changes in the organization.

Keywords : ICT; digital divide; MSMEs; Probit model; Aguascalientes; C25; O33; O14.