Impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en el empleo y ventas de las MIPYMES de Paraguay

Abstract

Cómo referenciar este artículo/ How to reference this article Sánchez Báez, E. A., Ferrer Dávalos, R. M. y Sanabria, D. D. (2022). Impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en el empleo y ventas de las MIPYMES de Paraguay. Revista científica en ciencias sociales, 4(1), 65-77. RESUMENEl objetivo del estudio es determinar el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en el empleo y ventas de las MIPYMES de Paraguay. Se utilizó un enfoque cuantitativo, transeccional de tipo descriptivo con un muestreo estratificado. Se realizó una encuesta online a 360 propietarios y gerentes de MIPYMES de los sectores del comercio, construcción, industria y servicios durante los meses de febrero a abril de 2021, vía email. El cuestionario estaba compuesto por dos bloques (aspectos generales e indicadores relacionados a facturación, rentabilidad, productividad, calidad de los productos, eficiencia de los procesos productivos, satisfacción de clientes y empleados, crecimiento de las ventas, etc.). Se aplicó la prueba Chi cuadrada de Pearson y el análisis de varianza para los datos cuantitativos. Se demostró una disminución en la generación de empleos del 41,8% en las micro, 59,2% en las medianas y 53,2% en las pequeñas empresas y, caídas en las ventas del 70,6% en las micro, 71% en pequeñas y 64,6% en medianas empresas. Se concluye que las variables de la generación de empleos como el nivel de ventas han sufrido caídas importantes durante el periodo analizado. No obstante, existen expectativas positivas para el año 2021 entre las empresas participantes del proyecto.

Hope, resilience and subjective happiness among general population of Paraguay in the post COVID-19 pandemic

“…Those with flourishing mental health also reported that work was the greatest source of stress. We might consider that after 4 years of COVID-19 pandemic, people still experience difficulties in their financial affairs (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2020; Sánchez Báez et al, 2021).…”

Internal organizational characteristics and their impact on sales: the case of Paraguayan MSMEs during the covid-19 pandemic

“…Partial or total blockages in their operations have led in many cases to the definitive closure of several ventures, a change of line of business, or a change of business model (Burhan Ismael et al, 2021). This situation has worsened in developing countries such as Paraguay, where on the one hand the limited action of governments and on the other hand the poor quality of the business fabric have had, to a certain extent, an impact on the ability to successfully face this type of crisis (Sánchez-Báez & Sanabria, 2019). In this sense, although most Ibero-American governments have implemented support strategies for MSMEs, it seems that these were poorly designed since they had very little effect on mitigating the loss of income for them (García-Pérez- de-Lema et al, 2021;Sánchez-Báez et al, 2021;Ferrer Dávalos, 2021).…”

“…Thus, this article tries to fill the information gap on Paraguayan MSMEs by providing some evidence related to the operations of these companies and the way they have faced the pandemic, since they represent 97% of the productive units in the country and generate approximately 61% of employment (MIC, 2019). Some studies show that the operational capacity of Paraguayan MSMEs and therefore their capacity to generate and maintain jobs has been negatively impacted by the pandemic (Sánchez-Báez et al, 2022). Therefore, taking into account the multiple effects of COVID-19 on businesses, this article studies some organizational characteristics that in some way could have impacted the sales of Paraguayan MSMEs during the pandemic and aims to report what happened in these firms in relation to supplier and supply chain relationships and how sales were affected during this period.…”