{"id":253698,"date":"2022-06-02T16:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=253698"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T20:05:34","slug":"the-business-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/counterbalance\/the-business-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The business system"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think the first thing would be to agree on what is meant by \u201cbusiness system,\u201d because for a long time we defined it as one that was made up of state enterprises that were owned by all the people and which were managed by the corresponding ministries, in a vertical and centralized way. Such a system was that set of enterprises whose dependence on the centralized allocation of resources \u2014 understood as material, financial and even labor resources \u2014 was almost absolute; that they also suffered from another worse dependency: the dependency on the orientations from \u201cabove,\u201d that is, on the group of organizations and individuals whose ideas\/decisions\/indications were not questioned, even when the specific knowledge they had about the activity about which they issued guidance was dangerously close to zero. Complying with what was indicated was the path to success, questioning it was getting dangerously close to the mouth of a \u201cblack hole\u201d that could take it to another dimension.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many things have changed since then and not by chance, but by necessity and also by the political will to want to do it. Today the \u201cCuban business system\u201d is structured in at least several groups: the <\/span>socialist state enterprise<\/b><\/a>, the enterprises that in different contractual forms are related to foreign capital \u2014 from joint ventures to branches \u2014, the non-state forms of management (small and medium-sized enterprises or <\/span>MSMEs<\/b><\/a>, self-employment, and even local development projects, and I would also include all cooperatives, agricultural, credit and services, and industrial and services). Compared to just a decade ago, today we can say that the business system has diversified, not only because new members such as MSMEs have been born, but also because others not so new have spaces that they did not have just a decade ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Habemus rules. We will have MSMEs<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n