Environmental hostility business in mexican exporting smes in the context of covid-19: Effect on the performance

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the impact that business environmental hostility has on the financial performance of exporting SMEs in the State of Aguascalientes, Mexico in the framework of the pandemic caused by Covid-19. An empirical study was carried out with a sample of 120 small and medium exporting companies from the State of Aguascalientes, Mexico during the months of July to October 2020. The results obtained show that the unfavorable conditions caused by Covid-19, together with other conditions that already existed before the pandemic, negatively but not significantly affect the financial returns of exporting SMEs in the State of Aguascalientes. The conclusions shows that the difficulty of companies to access distribution channels and capital, as well as the obsolescence that they present in their products or in their business due to the new market conditions, negatively affect their financial performance.