Estrategias, estilos de dirección, compromiso de los trabajadores, responsabilidad social y desempeño de las pequeñas y medianas empresas de economía social de la región de Murcia

In the Region of Murcia are located about three thousand five hundred companies of Social Economy (U.S.), mostly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this study was to determine their level of professionalism and efficiency in the regional context. The analysis of the data generated by a survey of a hundred company´s managers in the region, allows us to describe relevant aspects of their internal and external operations, including: leadership styles, level of worker commitment, entrepreneurial skills, competitive strategies, levels of social responsibility or results of each company. The classification of the surveyed companies meeting their results in recent years marked by the economic crisis and the improvement in the performance of various organizational aspects, allows us to propose an entrepreneurial typology and to check the relationship between business accomplishments and leadership styles, the level of commitment of workers or monitoring of certain innovative business strategies.En la Región de Murcia se localizan cerca de tres mil quinientas empresas de Economía Social (ES), en su mayor parte Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PYMEs). El objetivo de este trabajo es conocer el nivel de profesionalización y eficacia de las mismas. El análisis de los datos generados con una encuesta realizada a un centenar de gerentes de empresas de la Región, permite describir aspectos relevantes de su funcionamiento interno y externo, como son: estilos de liderazgo, nivel de compromiso de los trabajadores, capacidades empresariales, estrategias competitivas, niveles de responsabilidad social o resultados de cada empresa. La realización de una clasificación de las empresas encuestadas atendiendo a sus resultados en los últimos años de crisis económica y mejoras en el desempeño de distintos aspectos organizacionales, permite plantear una tipología empresarial, comprobándose la relación que existe entre sus logros empresariales y los estilos de liderazgo, el nivel de compromiso de los trabajadores o el seguimiento de determinadas estrategias empresariales más innovadoras

Strategies, Styles of Leadership, Commitment of Workers Social Responsibility and Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises of Social Economy in the Region of Murcia

In the Region of Murcia are located about three thousand five hundred companies of Social Economy (U.S.), mostly small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this study was to determine their level of professionalism and efficiency in the regional context. The analysis of the data generated by a survey of a hundred company´s managers in the region, allows us to describe relevant aspects of their internal and external operations, including: leadership styles, level of worker commitment, entrepreneurial skills, competitive strategies, levels of social responsibility or results of each company. The classification of the surveyed companies meeting their results in recent years marked by the economic crisis and the improvement in the performance of various organizational aspects, allows us to propose an entrepreneurial typology and to check the relationship between business accomplishments and leadership styles, the level of commitment of workers or monitoring of certain innovative business strategies.</p