Analysis of the survival of agricultural exporting firms in Peru, 2009-2019

Morán Santamaría R.O.; Llonto Caicedo Y.; Supo Rojas D.G.; Llatas Díaz W.D.; Wilson Huamanchumo M.H.; Jiménez Garay O.D.; Uribe Del Aguila J.A.; Dondero Cassano P.P.G.; Castro Mejía P.J. · F1000Research (2024) · DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.158554.1

Resumen

Background: At the international level, the survival of exporting companies represents a critical issue in a context of heightened uncertainty and intensified competition within the framework of the country’s commercial opening. This is a context in which different companies are born and die as a result of the interaction between the market and other factors. The objective of this research was to analysis of the survival of exporting agricultural companies in Peru, 2009-2019. To this end, data from the Commission for the Promotion of Peru for Exports and Tourism (Promperu) was utilised. Methods: The methodological contribution of the research is based on the quantitative approach, of basic type with a descriptive elk; being the population that involves a total of data of the agricultural exporting companies of Peru in the period 2009-2019 and the sample is census and the non-parametric statistical technique used was the Kaplan Meier estimate for the estimation of the survival rate. Results: Exports of Peru’s non-traditional agricultural sector in FOB value have had an average annual growth of 12% in terms of FOB value and 9% in terms of volume exported; the entry rate of new agro-exporting agricultural companies reached an average growth of 2.3% and the exit rate reached an average of 2.2% in the period 2009-2019. Conclusions: The survival of exporting companies in the non-traditional agricultural sector is critical, where 89% of them survive only one year, while in the second year only 75% survive and in the sixth year only 33% survive. Copyright:

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional San Luis Gonzaga; Universidad de San Martín de Porres; Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo; Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca; Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener; Universidad César Vallejo