Propuesta de creación de la carrera de Gestión de Empresas en Economía Social y Solidaria, para la Escuela de Ingeniería de Empresas de la FADE ESPOCH

Abstract

The popular and solidarity economy is we known have always been present in Latin America and Ecuador. This identified as an ancestral sector, communal, cooperative, informal, small business and with other denominations. Today these are made visible from the constitution of 2008 in Ecuador that drives the existence of a supportive social and economic model. The social and economic importance of the sector is expressed in 50% of national employment generated by small businesses. Of these 46% are owned by women and it generates about 25.7% of the gross domestic product GDP. In addition there is over 950 registered union’s credit. Its assets reach nearly U.S. $1.5 billion and nearly 4 million members. They are not taken into account in this and it represents more than 15,000 community banks, savings and solidarity about alternative options. That reality motivates to generate a specialized academic alternative to address entrepreneurially to the sector. This is an open and strategic task for the state and the academy in particular. This research is somehow a suggestion to the information of professional management companies in the social economy, to investigate and produce knowledge, to raise your stats and help build public policy to improve social sector technical and entrepreneurially. The market is encouraging and accepting the career level existing social enterprises and solidarity. And the same Government that drives the fragment. Sector which has been granted with a wide institutionally and resources.