Business competitiveness and its association with strategic planning and organizational dialogical discourse in plastics recycling companies of the Colombian Caribbean coast

Abstract

A statistical association study was carried out between Business Competitiveness and the factors: business dialogic discourse and strategic planning in plastics recycling companies of the Colombian Caribbean region in 2016. The population studied was 68 companies recycling plastics waste from the Colombian Caribbean coast. The instruments to collect the information were: The questionnaire of Ibarra et al (2017) and the IDB's Competitiveness Map. The research was developed in three (3) stages: The first one evaluated the independent variables, business dialogic discourse and strategic planning in each of the companies under study. The second valued the dependent variable Business Competitiveness. In the third, the independent variables were crossed with the dependent variable making the relationship analysis. The results showed a statistical association with a 95% confidence level between business Competitiveness with business dialogic discourse and strategic planning.