Abstract

This research aims to discover the nature and purpose of the corporate groups in the Chilean law for, from there, define the concrete statute of responsibility that must be applied to the dominant entities and to his administrators in law, considered for such effects as administrators of fact of the dominated company. There are checked for it, in a critical way, the figures of disregard of legal entity and the attribution of extracontractual responsibility by the fact of a third person, used by the doctrine and jurisprudence in Chile, and therefore proposed the formulation of a new statute of responsibility, taking as a starting point for it the postulates of the theory of the fact administrator in the compared systems.