CAPA BENITEZ, Lenny Beatriz; CAPA BENITEZ, Ximena del Rosario    OLLAGUE VALAREZO, José Keneddy. Capital structure in the small and medium banana companies of the Province of El Oro. []. , 10, 2, pp. 304-309.   03--2018. ISSN 2218-3620.

In the context in which companies operate today, financial management occupies a fundamental place in making decisions regarding their capital structure. This is a subject on which there is a great controversy between scholars and researchers; Determine which is the optimal combination of own and foreign resources that generate a greater business value. The present investigation is developed in the banana sector of the Province of El Oro particularized in the small and medium enterprises located in the Machala Canton. Its objective is focused on the study of its capital structure, based on the analysis of the alternatives for obtaining financing funds. For its development theoretical and empirical methods were applied, which give certain rigor to the analyzes and results obtained. As fundamental results, it was obtained that the companies use as a source of fundamental financing to the suppliers followed by the agents of the informal economy, as well as, that there is a low percentage of the indebtedness of the companies, determined basically by the use of the different sources of financing.

: Structure; capital; financing; resources; risk.

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