Fatores discriminantes de mortalidade e sobrevivência de micro e empresas de pequeno porte de Francisco Beltrão - Paraná

Abstract

The Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) are known to be important pieces on the board of the Regional Development. Plays an important role in generating employment and income, strongly contributing to such development. It is exclusive of the city of Francisco Beltrão / PR, locus of this research, as it actually happens in any region of the country. However, the high rate of mortality of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Brazil has been featured in the press over the years. It's no different in the state of Paraná, and it appears that is also not in the municipality of Francisco Beltrão. This has been studied in several areas of human knowledge, especially by the Entrepreneurship scholars, but also the Government, Economics, Public Management, Regional Development, among others. This study has as its theme the Company Mortality related to competitiveness effect, leadership profile, tools used for decision making and training manager and its consequences for regional development. The presented objective is to identify discriminating factors for survival and mortality of Micro and Small Enterprises Francisco Porte Beltrão - Paraná. This research can be classified in various ways. First as to the method of approach, characterized by the hypothetical-deductive method because it uses the rationalization of the deductive method and experimentation of the inductive method. The method of procedure was the statistician, related to quantitative research approach, the research is still applied nature. As for the goal, distinguishes itself as exploratory. Have the technical procedures were used to descriptive statistics, by checking the frequency and data crossing (crosstabs), generating inferences for the use of Binary Logistic Regression, Data Multivariate Analysis tool, using the computational tool SPSS 18.0. We investigated a sample of 315 companies of Francisco Beltrao, with 266 active and 49 discontinued. The results answer the question problem of this dissertation, were statistically proven that 7 variables were identified and characterized a set of discriminating factors, which were 3 for mortality: permission for the team to solve problems without management intervention; conducting customer satisfaction surveys; and goal setting; and 4 for survival: inventory control; the calculation of profitability; the use of cash flow as a source of information for decision making; and the number of courses taken by the manager.