GESTIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO COMO FACTOR DE COMPETITIVIDAD EN LAS PYMES DEL ECUADOR

Abstract

The conditions of the business environment that currently are imposed and the strong competitiveness and complexity have made knowledge management become fundamental to the sustainability of business and companies in the world pillar. The globalization of trade relations and the rapid growth of economic sectors oriented to the need for information and transform it into useful knowledge for easy incorporation into the company for success throughout the organization will always depend on the activity of the workforce . Under this perspective, this paper aims to investigate from the theoretical point about the importance and influence of knowledge management in small and medium enterprises in Ecuador. To this end, developed topics describe the importance of knowledge in business, human capital management and knowledge of SMEs in Ecuador. Mostly human capital management is often informally result of lack of knowledge of entrepreneurs and the low value of human resources, operating treated as subject and not a strategic resource for meeting objectives.