Capacidades de absorción, un diagnóstico en la pequeña y mediana empresa del giro industrial

To achieve a competitive advantage in the industrial sector means a strategy promoted by senior management, based on the experience acquired over time and the capabilities that are formed or absorbed. This article proposes to identify if absorptive capacities (acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation) work explaining the innovation types developed by small and medium industrial companies located in Sonora. The cross-sectional research analyzes the data using the statistical method multiple linear regression in a model that includes the stages of absorptive capacity for each type of Innovation (product and process, organization, and commercialization) whose data were collected using an adapted survey, applied a sample of 89 small and medium industrial companies. The results show that assimilation capacity can explain all the types of innovation and exploitation capacity specifically explains to process and product’s innovation, which constitutes the main knowledge that is provided considering that each innovation types requires specific management and represents the current routines using knowledge in the companies studied, related to their performance.