Family Companies and Their Capacity for Entrepreneurship in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico

Chávez Moreno Edgar Armando¹, Flores-Ortiz María Virginia¹, Vega-López Alfonso¹, Ramírez Loria Randall², Tapia León Julio César³   

Abstract: This research study between Costa Rica, Ecuador and Mexico is aimed at identifying and analyzing entrepreneurial skills in family businesses and the maturation of the business in order to make a comparative table between the three participating countries. In this sense, a convenience sampling of 34 companies from a Costa Rican municipality, 50 companies from a municipality in Ecuador and 30 companies from a municipality in Mexico and a measuring instrument was applied. The statistical treatment was carried out with the support of SPSS and Excel. The research methodology is quantitative. The quantitative research is applied to the questionnaires, to the owners according to a convenience sample of the total population of family businesses in Ecuador, Costa Rica and Mexico. The information collected was processed with application of the SPSS statistical program for the descriptive and inferential analysis.

Key words: family businesses; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial skills; comparative; business administration; management

JEL codes: J000, L260, M000, M100, O17, O31