Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración: Volume 27 Issue 3

Editorial

Enrique Ogliastri

Six research papers are published on this issue: three on finances, two regarding public administration and one on business economy. They come from six countries and ten…

Market quality and structural changes in the trading system: The case of X‐Stream on the Colombian stock exchange

Diego A. Agudelo, Ángelo Gutiérrez Daza, Nazly J. Múnera Montoya

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of X‐Stream, the new trading platform of the Colombian Stock Exchange since February 2009, on the market quality.

The determinants of capital structure in Peru

Gerardo Gómez, Ana Mena Rivas, Edmundo R. Lizarzaburu Bolaños

The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that influence in the capital structure of non‐financial companies listed in the Stock Exchange of Lima.

Influence of farmers’ behavioral attitudes on hedging decisions

Rodrigo Lanna Franco da Silveira, Alexandre Gori Maia, José César Cruz Júnior, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors, including behavior, that impact the knowledge and use of futures contracts among Brazilian coffee producers. The results are…

The duration of financial stress: A factor impacting on the implementation of NPM‐delivery forms in local government

José Luis Zafra‐Gómez, Antonio M. López‐Hernández, Ana María Plata Díaz, Gemma Pérez López

Financial stress features frequently as an explanatory factor in research into decisions concerning the contracting out, or decentralisation, of local public services, though…

Exploring the determinants of born‐global firms in Chile

Christian A. Cancino, Freddy C. Coronado

Although much has been studied about the characteristics of born‐global firms in developed countries, studies about developing economies are far and few between and most tend to…

Teaching performance: determinants of the student assessment

Adriana Morales Rodríguez, Joan‐Lluís Capelleras, Víctor M. Gimenez Garcia

The purpose of this paper is to identify the nature and factors that influence student evaluation of the teaching performance of university teachers by integrating two areas of…