Desempenho das firmas versus percepção de obstáculo: evidências para Brasil, Chile e Peru

Abstract

Firms' performance may be affected by a number of obstacles, they are intrinsic to the Firm as size, sector, and organizational structure of the firm, or determined by the social and economic context of the country in which it is located. The perception that the entrepreneur has the contextual difficulties can direct investments in any direction, making the same companies take different decisions. This dissertation investigates how perceptions of different types contextual obstacles can affect the performance of firms in different countries of South America: Brazil, Chile and Peru. For this was used as performance indicators fixed asset investment, resource capacity utilization, sales growth and hiring workers. Contextual obstacles were considered the institutional / legal nature such as taxes, licenses and regulation of labor; Social: corruption, crime and competition from the informal sector; economic: unskilled labor and access to funding and infrastructure: access to electricity and transportation. The survey data were extracted from the World Bank website, research enterprise surveys. To make estimates of the linear and logistic regression models were used as the dependent variable. The main results showed that economic and social obstacles are common to the three countries studied. It should be noted that in addition to common obstacles to the three countries, to Chile and Peru, obstacles Institutional / Legal also seem to influence the performance of companies in those countries.