Abstract

MAYORGA-ABRIL, César; ALVAREZ-JIMENEZ, Elsy; RUIZ-GUAJALA, Mery  and  VASCONEZ-CORDERO, Víctor. The technical efficiency of the manufacturing sector in economic zone 2 of Ecuador. ReHuSo [online]. 2024, vol.9, n.1, pp.1-10.  Epub June 05, 2024. ISSN 2550-6587.  https://doi.org/10.33936/rehuso.v9i1.5206.

Technical efficiency is an economic tool used to determine the use of business resources to improve their productive capacity. The objective was to establish the relationship between production factors and technical efficiency. The methodology for the analysis of the information obtained was the data envelopment analysis (DEA) supported by the location and urbanization indexes. As results, it was evidenced that the highest constant return (CRS) is in the year 2016 and reaches 0.77046 and, the most representative variable return (VRS) is presented in the year 2018 with 0.97901. The average location index is 27.8402. Ultimately, through an econometric model, the direct relationship between the variables is obtained, to obtain a more concrete support in the results of the investigation. In conclusion, all the companies are in the province of Pichincha exclusively and technical efficiency has a direct relationship with the capital incurred (Ci) and the raw material (Mp) in addition to the location and urbanization indices.

Keywords : factors of production; variable returns; constant returns; urbanization; location.

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