Intervención de las instituciones públicas vascas en la mejora de la gestión en las pequeñas empresas: un instrumento de fomento de empleo

Abstract

This work is basically split into two main parts. The former of the two is dedicated to analysing and justifying the convenience of public intervention in improving the management of small businesses. This intervention has a number of widely varying justifications. In the first place, small businesses are sadly lacking in management skills, a factor which considerably diminishes their competitiveness; hence, improved management may also improve their competitiveness. In the second place, and this is a particularly important reason, small businesses are potential mines of employment and wealth, so that improving their competitiveness is unquestionably a positive step towards increasing employment and generating wealth. In the third place, public intervention is always a recommendable action for solving market defects such as the one to be found in the intervention analysed in this work. In the second part of the article, we analyse the different public programmes set in motion by different Basque institutions, all of which are aimed at improving the management of small and medium-sized businesses.