Red de Administradores Compartidos y su Relación con el Desempeño Financiero en Empresas del Ecuador: ¿Cuál es el efecto de compartir Capital Humano?

Information has always been a potential source of comparative advantage between companies, so knowing it in its entirety has become a necessity for decision makers. Today, there are tools such as Social Network Analysis, which may have a greater scope to know the impact of relationships between individuals. In this project, the effect of financial performance on sharing human capital and being a prominent company in the market is quantified. Likewise, communities in the industry were identified, using modularity as a measure of grouping between companies. With a sample of 9,070 signatures from Ecuador in 2018, indicators were proposed based on the history of administrators and the centrality measures of the graph theory. Income was chosen as the indicator that best represents financial performance. The results found showed that there is a considerable positive effect on financial performance when a company is prominent in the market. On the other hand, it is determined that there is a negative effect on financial performance by sharing human capital, when hiring a worker who works or worked in a company in the same sector, as well as in other sectors of the industry. Finally, it was found that the indicators that quantify connections with companies represent avaluable source of information for firms.