Purpose: To analyze the determinants of access to and use of formal financial services through the banking correspondent channel on the development of enterprises in rural areas of Ecuador. Method: Qualitative case study methodological strategy. Eighteen rural communities of the Coast and Highlands of Ecuador were studied. A thematic analysis was carried out to identify and analyze recurring patterns within the data. themes and sub-themes were categorized, allowing for the exploration of underlying meanings of interviews. Through an inductive analysis in Atlas.ti 9. The concepts identified in the interviews and the researcher's files were reviewed and the results were compared with the theoretical assumptions specified in the literature. Results: The main new contribution of this research to the business management knowledge of this research was the following: This study showed that ther...

Purpose: To analyze the determinants of access to and use of formal financial services through the banking correspondent channel on the development of enterprises in rural areas of Ecuador. Method: Qualitative case study methodological strategy. Eighteen rural communities of the Coast and Highlands of Ecuador were studied. A thematic analysis was carried out to identify and analyze recurring patterns within the data. themes and sub-themes were categorized, allowing for the exploration of underlying meanings of interviews. Through an inductive analysis in Atlas.ti 9. The concepts identified in the interviews and the researcher's files were reviewed and the results were compared with the theoretical assumptions specified in the literature. Results: The main new contribution of this research to the business management knowledge of this research was the following: This study showed that ther...