Bootstrapping assessment in exporting companies competitiveness

Abstract

This investigation article presents the result of a scientic research carried out to the Exporting Companies of the
Agricultural Sector in the state of Michoacan. Its general objective is to determine the interrelationships between
the critical variables that dene the International Competitiveness of companies that export agricultural
products to the United States market, located in the state of Michoacan. A theoretical review was made, which
identied the variables -quality, price, training, indices, and indicators that were integrated into a questionnaire
composed of 38 items and applied to the identied exporting companies in the sector. Once the information was
processed, different statistical techniques were used, and with the results obtained a Structural Model was
identied that describes how these variables are interrelated, based on the Partial Least Square Modeling
Statistical Technique (PLS) and the Bootstrapping model. After applying the questionnaire to agricultural
exporting companies, the processing of the data of each of the surveyed companies was continued, through
parametric statistics and the application of variance correlation.