The article holds that, from the 1970s to the early 1990s, business associations formed an ideological and organic bloc based on an “identity principle” whereby they defined themselves as the main actors of development, a fact that accounts for their fundamentalistic defense of the “neoliberal model”. Subsequently,
and as a consequence of the new challenges that Chile began to face, this ideological action bloc lost its effectiveness, leading to a more pluralistic business leadership. This gave rise to a new approach among business associations. This process is part of a broader development involving the reshaping of the
system of political, economic and social relations in Chile.