Estrategias de internacionalización de Mercado Libre

Abstract

The central objective of the document is based on identifying the strategies used by Mercado Libre for the internationalization of its electronic commerce model, to achieve this objective it is proposed to contextualize the digital ecosystem of the firm and explain the strategies used to penetrate some markets where has a presence, and identify which is the digital ecosystem with the greatest projection of the company. In order to respond to the objectives of the research, a non-experimental design is proposed and it seeks to resolve the research question through the use of secondary sources which do not allow any manipulation of the variables described or studied by other researchers. In this way, the scope of the investigation is descriptive since its objective is to provide detailed information regarding the fundamental characteristics of the Mercado Libre platform and its internationalization. During the development of the investigation, the company is described as a Born Global where it is observed that Mercado Libre developed an ecosystem composed of six business units, which provide solutions for payments, logistics, financing, advertising and services, additionally it has a projection in International business is very broad, but among them the development of its credit market and payment market is part of one of the most promising strategies in relation to financial inclusion.