LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH THE USE OF NEW INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AS A RELEVANT DIMENSION OF COMPETITIVENESS IN GUAYAQUIL’S COMPANIES

Abstract

To develop this article, a documentary review of the elaboration and production of research works related to the study of Local Development, Socio-economic Entrepreneurship and the use of New Information and Communication Technologies at the Latin American level was carried out in order to know, through a bibliometric study, the main characteristics of 13 publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2021. The results obtained from this database were organized in tables and figures, categorizing the information by variables such as Year of Publication, Country of Origin and Area of Knowledge, which allowed to identify, through qualitative analysis, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic. The main findings of this research were that Mexico stood out for having the highest scientific production, leading the list with 4 publications. Likewise, the area of knowledge that contributed the most to the construction of bibliographic material related to the study of variables was the social sciences with 7 published documents.