Caracterización de la composición del sector empresarial en el municipio de Palmira, para el periodo 2013– 2016

Abstract

The objective of this work was to characterize the composition of the business sector in the municipality of Palmira, for the period 2013 - 2016. For this purpose, a descriptive research was carried out, through the analysis of historical data of the business composition of the Chamber of Commerce of Palmira and the Progresamos Foundation published in the statistical yearbooks. In the work, a comparative analysis was made of the business information of the municipality of the selected years that allowed the identification of the dynamics of the companies in recent years according to the economic sectors and subsectors. These results provide information to organizations to prepare in advance to changes and trends in the sector. The results also allow entrepreneurs to make investment decisions for new businesses in the region. In addition, they provide SMEs with a context of the sector's situation in order to take on new challenges, with competitive strategies. The municipality of Palmira in recent years has shown strong growth in different economic sectors, which has allowed it to impact the economy of the region. According to the research carried out, it is evident that microenterprises have a constant growth rate of 4% in the analysis period, with the highest participation in the market with an average of 6592 companies, which corresponds to 93%; On the other hand, the wholesale and retail trade in repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles presents a constant growth rate (4%) represented by 3003 companies corresponding to 42% of the average for the period of analysis, another activity or economic sector important is the manufacturing industry with a 12% share (890 companies) on average, however in the latter, its growth rate has been variable with some positive and negative peaks. In addition, in the study period, there are some important changes in the types of legal entities, where organizations prefer to be mainly: natural persons (78%, 5571 companies) or companies for simplified actions S.A.S. (15%, 1099 companies), so the economy of the municipality also has the contribution of imports and exports, mainly in the trade of yellow hard corn and other sugar cane or beet and chemically pure sucrose in the solid state, respectively, they are key elements to explain the phenomenon. In conclusion, the business sector of Palmira shows growing economic dynamics, dominated by wholesale and retail trade in automotive and motorcycle repair, in addition most of the productive units correspond to microenterprises being the largest contributors to the generation of employment in the city, while the most important legal entity is natural persons.