This study examines the construction of a positive corporate image in public statements issued by 12 Chilean companies facing a crisis in the period January 2008 to July 2010. Drawing on repair image theory (Benoit, 1997), ...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of proposals for the conceptual modeling of Extraction- Transformation-Loading processes (ETL) and proposals that incorporate security in data warehouses and ETL processes. The ...

This article deals with the precarious existential condition of present inhabitants, workers and co-workers of the nitrate plant town María Elena, located in the north of Chile. It also refers to the traditional cultural ...

This paper will analyze the effect of a combination of variables such as sources of financing, concentration of ownership, type of members of the board and the size of the company, in the transparency index which measures ...

Given the importance of the Theory of Evolution (TE) as scientific knowledge, the aim of the present study was to characterize the understanding about TE of 248 undergraduate students. Data was collected based on an 18 ...

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The phenomenon of persistence of profits has been studied for a considerable time in both developed and developing countries. However, the empirical evidence is inconsistent: while some research suggests that companies ...

Ecclesiastic privileges were a legacy from the Indiano law to the national law, although, from the beginning of the republican life, its abolition was expected. The opportunity to do that was given by the analysis of the ...

Oral language skills develop in school age children both quantitatively and qualitatively. Among the qualitative changes, we find metapragmatic awareness. Despite the existence of various hypotheses which account for this ...

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