Evaluación del bootstrapping en la competitividad de las empresas exportadoras[An Assessment of Bootstrapping on the Competitiveness of Exporting Firms]

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.