Dynamic adaptive capacities that influence the export process of metal-mechanical SMEs in Barranquilla: A case study

The capacity for adaptation expresses that it responds to a cyclical process that determines the survival of the different business organizations through systemic thinking, shared vision, models and the mastery of personnel. The objective of the article is to describe the dynamic capacity for adaptation in the export process of SMEs in the metalworking sector in Barranquilla, based on a positivist, descriptive and non-experimental investigation. The sample was made up of 4 SMEs from the metalworking sector in Barranquilla, which made it possible to establish that this dynamic capacity supports the development of competitive advantages based on organizational learning. It is concluded that these companies consider external variables in order to maximize management processes. Indeed, since the ability to adapt is a variable that responds to the characteristics of each organization, it is suggested to develop introspective experiential studies whose objective is the analysis of the influence that this dynamic capacity exerts on the competitive development of SMEs. supported by the moderating effect of organizational learning.

• Autores: Arevalo, Osvaldo; Urueta, Juan; Navarro, Franklin
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2021
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/10771
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/10771; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co
• Palabra clave: Dynamic capacities; Adaptive capacity; Organizational learning
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)