Purpose- Globalized economy , demand for small and medium businesses faces a number of challenges to keep the levels of global competitiveness , being among the incorporation leading and use technology to increase growth , productive and competitive development , so that in developing these technological processes inside, you can get the same benefits as part of their social responsibility.Therefore, this research focuses on the analysis of the relationship between technology and benefits of social responsibility in SMEs in the manufacturing sector in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – Literature reviewed focuses on the basics of matter as competitiveness, technology and social responsibility. The study has a quantitative approach and explores the relationship between the variables of social responsibility, technology and competitiveness in manufacturing SMEs in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, through a survey of 418 SMEs which is the subject of study. The questionnaire was designed to obtain a profile of entrepreneurs and their organizations, and consist of two blocks as competitiveness and social responsibility, which contains a total of 37 reagents and reliability come through Cronbach’s alpha 0.900. The frequencies were obtained by the test of sphericity characterization of entrepreneurs, factor analysis was applied to the correlation of variables and finally the analysis of variance for hypothesis testing was performed. Originality/value – Methodology allows to analyze the correlation between competitiveness variable: technology and social responsibility variable: benefits in manufacturing SMEs to which we applied the study. Practical implications – Results show that the fact of using technology in manufacturing industries analyzed , they generate a positive benefit within the social responsibility element, which provides guidelines for developing strategies that benefit competitively these organizations , further economic development is achieved and productive and thus contribute to a sense of social responsibility.